Recent content by heidesw

@Adjuster: Yeah, you're right it does have an LED, that part makes sense now, it's just drawing off the small bit of power to turn the led on when the iron is heating up. Great thanks for the clarification on that. I work with a low melting point solder (tin, silver, coppper) and would like to...

So being curious, I opened up my cheapo radioshack battery powered soldering iron and to my surprise there was basically just a resistor and a contact switch which connected to the batteries and the soldering tip. Does this seem correct or am I mistaken. My purpose for opening it is because...