On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 22:26:34 +0100
Peter Percival  wrote:

> Theo wrote:

> > If your soldering iron has any mains leakage that an isolating
> > transformer would protect you from, there's something seriously wrong
> > with it.
>
> My concern is protecting the devices I'm soldering!

 If there's any leakage then there's a problem that an isolating
transformer won't help with (or you have a solder gun in which case throw
it away now), the bit should be grounded and that should be enough.

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