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Esd Safe Soldering Station Hack

May 11, 2020

  • Soldering
  • Electronics

Turns out my £20 soldering station does indeed work, but its claims of ESD safety are lies. Let’s fix that!

Hacking it to add the ESD safety isn’t hard, so I made a video on how to do that.

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