<div dir="ltr"><div><div>What is normal?<br><br></div>Don't worry about normal. "To measure is to know".<br><br></div>BTW: The scope I have here (Rigol) has earthed probes.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Marshland Engineering <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marshland@marshland.co.nz" target="_blank">marshland@marshland.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Ok not Kaiakora type but electrical ones.<br>
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I have a digitally controlled soldering iron, PSU and Scope. For the past XX<br>
years, I never connected the scope earth to the plug earth thinking that the<br>
probe ground would therefore float with reference to my power supply earth.<br>
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Any way, when soldering components on my test PCB, a few LED's started to<br>
glow. I measured the voltages on the test equipment and I had 90 volts between<br>
my soldering iron and scope probe earth. A few more measurements and I found<br>
scope probe earth was the problem.<br>
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What is normal? Earth the scope, disconnect all cables to the board before<br>
soldering, run an isolating transformer?<br>
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Often USB powered boards get supply from the PC and some laptops only have 2<br>
pin plugs so all sorts of earth issues can occur?<br>
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Any suggestions ?<br>
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Just ordered a battery pocket scope from Aliexpress. That will solve one<br>
issue.<br>
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Cheers Wallace.<br>
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