11 Sep
2011
11 Sep
'11
8:48 p.m.
On 11 Sep 2011 at 18:25, jim s wrote:
I saw one at a swap meet (the high watt one) and
thought it was a
joke. Some of them had variable output triggers on them, but I don't
know any job you'd take one to that would be anything other than full
on, and almost none here on this list other than power circuits, I
would think.
I'm not sure about the application, but I suspect it's for jobs such
as soldering copper sheet, such as one might find on gutters and
flashing. You really don't want to use a bare flame on that stuff--
it doesn't take too much heat beyond that required for soldering to
make copper sheet deform.
If you were building a large Faraday cage for your gear, it might
come in handy.
--Chuck