It could be that the heater wire is deforming as it heats up and touching the metal housing somewhere, that could trip the GFI and might not even show up on an insulation test. We don't have GFI

Dave  I have had GFCI outlets fail before so also a possibility. You likely have other GFCI outlets in house ( kitchen or bathroom , even outside on back porch) take the station out and temporarily

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 07:02 PM, Robert Hay wrote: Hi Bob, > > Not sure if the article is by the fellow you referred to. > It most certainly is! Here is a link to the stuff I purchased from

" different GFCI circuit. If it trips that then you know there is a problem with the hot air station " Yes, it trips twp different GFCI outlet after its run for a few minutes. I guess I just need

" but I'm cheap too..... " LOL, same here. I should take it apart an make sure they don't have the hot and neutral swapped when they wired it for US use. I would really doubt that. Dave

Not that I know of All the ones I've seen were soldered to the board If you mean Tek P/N I have no idea, if you mean the Dallas number, yes it is DS1742W-150 /Håkan

I see someone suggest a 7D02 you can use it in a 7603 but be very careful it exceeds the power supplies capability yes exceeds. You will affect with me smoke are at the best shorten the life of any

He rather specifically wanted 7000 series plugins. While I do have a 7D20, I don't use it very much, I do have digital scopes of varying capacity and bandwidth. Didn't know about the high current

Hi Stefan, Today when I got home I downloaded a nicely rated Decibel app to my phone, and the 20 year old Metcal MX-DS1 I have makes around 95 dB when you hold the phone close to the MX-SD1 and then

I would check the wiring.  I have had switched outlet strips with the hot and neutral swapped and the switch and fuse/circuit breaker in different leads.  Ken WA2LBI LG G6 

Hot / neutral swapped does not matter unless it has a fault in the first place. Certainly for equipment designed for the international market there can't be excessive earth leakage from either

Some time back I purchased a Tek 2232 scope with a bad A/D converter hybrid part 165-0011-02. After much procrastination, got down to designing a replacement for it that uses the same ADC - AD9002

When I use my DS-1 yeah it's loud but it works it sucks solder out of places very few others will such as my old boat anchors. If the noise is excessive to you how about getting a little low-cost

Here's one not mentioned yet? My actually most used PI is an older 7A12. Its illuminated push button vert sensitivity selection for both 105MHz channels rather than a rotary switch I find quicker and

I already have a bunch of OK working desoldering stations. What I was looking for is spending well more than what my car is worth to upgrade them to something better. My wishlist was a bit more

Well it's like the rest of us said, the noise doesn't bother us. I actually find it not bothersome at all. Additionally, I have used it a million times in the basement while the very young kids are

No schematics because Tek wants all the service business for themselves, and like Germans, think that no one in the world is smart enough to understand their designs in order to service them

I made a video showing the difference between the two desoldering stations: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ggDtwSi4CcJEzAP78 The Metcal does move a higher volume of air, 23 seconds to empty a bag,

Hi Stefan, In terms of performance, I think the Metcal will win. The Chinese station might reach a higher blocked vacuum level but that's not what we desire when desoldering. The flow never stops when

I tried some desoldering (did unpack the power station after all ;-) ) and frankly I could see no improvement on the tricky transformer power plane connections that were giving me trouble. If anything