[Boatanchors] Decent multimeter and 3-wire iron

Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:50:05 -0400

I routinely work on solid state circuits with the power on. I have an American
Beauty iron that has interchangeable power cords. I swapped a power cord from a
2 to a 3 wire, and every time I touched a connection, my circuit stopped or
started working. It took me a while to figure out the problem. I figured t was
capacitance at first, and wasted a bunch of time chasing parasitic.

Sorry to disappoint.
-John

Mike Clarson wrote:

> I'd be interested if John could enlighten us as to what happened to lead him
> to this conclusion.--MikeC
>
> John wrote:
>
> >Do not work on circuits with power applied with a 3 wire iron. LoL
>
> Indeed - you could have a bad experience.
>
> But wait - you can shorten your line to just:
>
> >Do not work on circuits with power applied...
>
> Steve
>
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