[Elecraft] LCD
Jessie Oberreuter
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Sat Dec 21 12:26:06 2002
Not unusual. LCD's are /very/ sensitive. You can touch a ground
and still "light" segments just by picking one up. Almost any voltage
differential will do -- that's why they are used in low power devices :).
Your device is fine!
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Bill Magruder wrote:
> I waited a couple days to see if anyone explained why the LCD segments
> appeared when soldering. I noticed the same thing and that started me
> thinking that I should have bought a better "expensive" iron than my old
> Radio Shack iron before starting on the kit. My K2 is working fine and no
> harm seemed to have occured.
> Is it heat from the iron that make the segments appear?
> Or stray voltage?
>
> Bill
> KD7KST
>
>
> I just finished soldering the LCD on to the Front Panel board. While
> soldering the pins I noticed segments of the LCD would appear when the
> soldering iron touched the leads? Is is normal, or ok? I'm just wondering
> what was going on? My soldering iron is a Weller WTCPN which was grounded.
> Hope this didn't hurt anything, but I'm sure wondering what was going on!
>
> Jerry - NR5A
>
>
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