Panic button for soldering equipment

[swc]

Hi
I do some electronics work. For safety sake I was wondering if there's a type of panic button I could use to cut off the supply off a socket which I'm going to install. It will be run off an existing double socket. Once this panic button is pressed the power should stay turned off until I reset it. The soldering station am using runs off a 13A plug top.

 

[scotsparky]

how about instead of water pump in beer that way nobody will complain if its set off and they will happily stay in ther with there snorkel on .

Dont think there will be a need for a strobe and alarm people could guess what happens. It will have to be tested at regular intervals of course to ensure correct operation so make a shedule up say every friday at 3pm?

 

[Engineer54]

For the small wattage load of a soldering iron, i'd just pass the cord through a stop button and EM switch the line conductor. Don't really need it to be DP. ..Daft idea anyway...lol!!!

 

[telectrix]

tch, tch, 17 posts and nobody has mentioned a hot work permit.

 

[nickblake]

When i was young i used to do alot of soldering in my bedroom ,left it on one night jumped out of bed in the morning and stood on it the smell and pain was unreal poor foot ,what a numpty

best way is a small relay with a push to break and push to make button same as a contactor circuit but mini easy to do
bet i wouldnt have burn my foot if i'd had one lol

 

[Adam W]

tch, tch, 17 posts and nobody has mentioned a hot work permit.

What about a hot works permit? If I'm doing some soldering at home having a bit of paper isn't going to stop me from burning myself, nor is being able to switch the iron off in a hurry. If I burn myself I'll generally feel it and either take the iron away from myself or myself away from the iron; it's instinctive, I don't hang around and think to press a button to turn the iron off. Likewise the iron will stay hot after you've unplugged it and you can still burn yourself, unless you seal the doors, put on an aqualung and flood the room with beer etc.

I think the occasional burn when you're soldering is par for the course; either man up and deal with it or learn to solder better.

 

[KFH]

On the theme of stop buttons and water. I was working on a panel on a fluid meter test flow rig. 5,000 gallon tank of water 30ft up. Pump capacity many thousands of gallons per hour. A 6" pipe on the rig blew a seal giving a 15 ft fountain of water next to the panel. I pressed the emergency stop button. Then I realised I had also turned off the power to close the valves. I had to get the valve handle out and stand under the fountain to close the valves. I am not a fan of cut off switches. I also accidently brushed against a stop button sticking out of a wall, it turned off the power to the computer room. I was not popular.
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[telectrix]

did you used to work at mr. burns' nuclear power plant by chance?

 

[Knobhead]

Spring return or air return valves in a situation like that. Power loss, valves close.

 

[KFH]

Unfortunately I did not get to design the rig just the panel. They built it as cheaply as possible, hence the failure, including the valves controlling the flow through the meter under test, we recommended one type and they substituted a cheaper option with O ring seals, they fluttered when nearly closed making low flow measurements dodgy. They did have the biggest wet/dry vacuum cleaner I had ever seen, three phase with a container about 5ft high. What I had forgotten was turning off the power stopped the pump but there was still a 30ft head of water powering the fountain. I can laugh about it now but I was not laughing at the time.