Review on 392℉ to 896℉ Temperature Adjustable Soldering Addition: A Versatile Solution for Precise Soldering by Brian Samuel

The 5-pin metal connector used to connect a soldering iron to the main unit of this soldering station is called an MS (Military Standard) connector. Since the soldering iron on this machine operates on full voltage 110/120 volts (no transformer), this type of connector MUST NOT BE USED on this soldering iron, especially when installing pins on the power side of the machine. If the device is plugged in, the switch is ON (no soldering iron) and you accidentally touch the metal plug, you can very easily get a hellish shock of over 110 volts, and you won't like it one bit! Standard precautions for MS connections are as follows: Voltages in excess of 30 VAC or 42.5 VDC are dangerous and care should be taken that such voltages cannot be transmitted in any way to exposed parts of the MS. connector housing. Look at my photo and you will see that the device reads 121 volts coming out of the fully open socket! How is it possible that Revain allowed such a dangerous block to be sold on their site?