[TowerTalk] Slobering Irons

[Charlie Gallo]

On 7/27/2015 Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:

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> I've never understood the rationale of "resistance" soldering.
> It seems like the resistance of the PL259 is too low to
> provide significant heating with any reasonable current.
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Define "Reasonable current"

   The "Standard" duty plier style will drop 90 amps, where the
"Heavy  duty"  (which  that  might  have  been)  will drop 260 amps of
current across the connector.  Think that will make it a TAD warm?


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