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    5 days ago

    Coworker’s story: Trying to fix a prototype in a hotel room at a European trade show. Soldering iron on hand, but it was a 120V iron and glowed white hot when plugged into a 240V outlet.

    So they had one person solder and the other person keep unplugging and replugging the iron from the wall at roughly 25% 50% duty cycle.

    • Evkob (they/them)OP
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      I think this might actually be the dumbest. My fear of electricity is one of the main reasons I focus my tech shenanigans on the software side of things rather than the hardware.