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Old 10th Nov 2019, 11:17 am   #35
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Default Re: Soldering Iron For PCB's

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Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler View Post
I'd suggest you've been lucky, Al. In the microwave section of the lab at HP there must have been over 30 Metcal setups failing at around one base per month. It was noticed that certain people had repeated failures and these were the folk who left them on.
First I've heard of it and I've been using them for quite some time. When something fails, it usually fails when something is on though, so

Maybe it was a bad batch at the time. I do notice though if I've left mine on for some time and haven't used it, it goes into a standby mode.
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