On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:54:06 EST, Rico Sapolich <JKrevnov@AOL.COM>
wrote:

>Mark,
>
>If you want to keep at it tonight and IF you know something about 120V.
>circuits, try a small lamp (aka, lightbulb) in series with your soldering
>iron.  A 30 watt lamp, if there is such a thing, should just about give you
>15 watts on the iron.  Also, 25 or 40 watt lamps should get you in the
>ballpark.
>
>Rich

A 1 amp, 200 piv diode in series with the line works pretty slick too.
Of course a person may be more likely to have a spare lamp than a
diode!

Later. . . . . . . . .Brad

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