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Posted by: uniserver on 2014-01-15 14:22:50
So the difference between a
20-40 dollar " dial temperature controlled "
and a
"Digitally Controlled" soldering iron is like this.
Most lawn mowers have a governor that limits the blade speed.
if the mower boggs down, the throttle is automatically increased to maintain blade speed.
if you had a mower that was just fixed throttle, once it bogged down, it might stall or stop cutting the grass.
This is like soldering with rheostat controlled cheaper soldering irons. With mine, I ended up leaving it all the way up
and after a while the tip would explode… 🙂
with this new digitally controlled iron, its smooth sailing. set the temp and it will kick in as needed, to keep that solder flowing.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2014-01-16 11:38:23
I still use a push mower, where does that fit in to your analogy? 😱)
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Posted by: mcdermd on 2014-01-16 12:28:07
Somewhere beside a blacksmith's fire.
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Posted by: uniserver on 2014-01-16 12:38:11
Yeah, push mower aswell.
as your pushing your mower if you hit a thick patch o grass, it will increase the throttle automatically.
if you didn't have a governor you would have to increase the throttle manually and then decrease it as needed.
like you would with a 20 dollar dial pot soldering iron.
LIke a weed wacker or a chainsaw, but with those uses, they are intermittent anyways 🙂
a mower's engine speed has to remain constant, so the lawn ends up looking half way decent when you are done 🙂
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2014-01-16 12:38:45
Somewhere beside a blacksmith's fire. It was cheaper to pay someone to run the billows than to buy a new soldering iron. 🙁
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Posted by: uniserver on 2014-01-16 12:43:30
At crossroads their blacksmith shop had electric billows 🙂
what a cheater.
but they have a real working steam CHOO CHOO train… my son loves it.
check this out,
they show how fast it takes a haako soldering element to full temp
http://www.hakkousa.com/controls/player_CDN.asp?Video=681
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