Never experienced this before...but then again I've never bought a cheap chinese soldering iron before either.
I needed a new iron so I picked up what looked like a nice low wattage one off of ebay. I've used it all of maybe 5 times or so.
Last weekend I was building some cables to connect up my Atari Video Music to my Rockola jukebox. Soldered up one fine. Went to add some solder to the tip to do the next cable and felt a small electric shock in my fingers and hand and thought WTF!?
Touched the solder to the tip again, got zapped again. Not sure what happened inside this iron but geez. Electroshock therapy and electronics repair all in one unit. Wonder what would happen if I were working on a board and the darn thing sent a jolt into the board...?
Anyone ever experience anything like this? Next time I'm buying a name brand iron!
Tom
I needed a new iron so I picked up what looked like a nice low wattage one off of ebay. I've used it all of maybe 5 times or so.
Last weekend I was building some cables to connect up my Atari Video Music to my Rockola jukebox. Soldered up one fine. Went to add some solder to the tip to do the next cable and felt a small electric shock in my fingers and hand and thought WTF!?
Touched the solder to the tip again, got zapped again. Not sure what happened inside this iron but geez. Electroshock therapy and electronics repair all in one unit. Wonder what would happen if I were working on a board and the darn thing sent a jolt into the board...?
Anyone ever experience anything like this? Next time I'm buying a name brand iron!
Tom

