no symptoms last night and today :-)ĭownside is temperature (fall here) - at about 12-14C right now it's ok (legs get cold after a while), moving towards winter this will be good cold training. Also used some lead-free solder I had bought a while ago and don't use for pcbs - figured it should be fine for wiring (and it was). Wired the rest of my Serge panel on the terrace (has a roof) while the rain was pouring down all day. Thanks guys, that's a lot of input and many ideas worth testing.įirst test I did (yesterday) was outdoor soldering. After a while i found out that the way i stared down all the time messed up my cervical spine. I became giddy from soldering and sometimes headaches. it can cause very strange effects in your body. Maybe its because you bring your clothes to your sleeping room or you have mold somewhere in the soldering room. parenteral intake (directly into blood by skin absorption or breathing) is not really healthy.Īlso look for other possible triggers of nausea in the room.īeacuse the nausea shows up hours after soldering, i doubt its the soldering. However, oral absorbtion of lead is a minor threat as well, so dont eat while soldering and wash your hands after tinning things together. So health dangers are minmal, compared to a daily walk aside high-traffic streets. When compared to a cigarette, inhaling tabacco smoke one time is as intensive as soldering for hours in a small, air sealed room. five minutes and 99,9% of the evil stuff is gone. not one, ideally the air srtream should go across the room. the good news is that you get rid of it by opening windows. The main danger from flux fumes come from formaldehyde. There may be cheaper Chinese versions available these days. But I can solder all day and never smell the fumes. And requires new filters every year or two, depending on use. They then go through a dust filter, a large charcoal filter (much bigger than the simple desktop units), and then through a HEPA filter. It has two flexible hoses with scoops on the ends and sucks up all the fumes. About 15 years ago I bought a professional fume extraction/filter system. But they don't catch all the fumes, so it still builds up in the room over time. That one worked a bit better since I could position it right in the natural path the fumes were taking. One desktop and one that was on an arm like a drafting light. It had a muffin fan blowing out and a piece of dryer hose laid by the work area to suck fumes outside without having the window open or losing too much heat in the winter = worked OK, but did raise the heat bill a little Made a piece of wood that wedged under the window. used a small muffin fan = better, but it just made the whole room have thinned down fumes instead of concentrated around my head Over the decades I tried a number of solutions. I really really appreciate your thoughts/recommendations here. So, did any of you guys experience this? Time to get some fume filter/extractor? Different solder (flux)? Gas mask? Outdoor soldering? Or rather check for non-soldering related causes? Maybe it's wiring related (which I didn't need to do in the past) - I seem to use and burn more solder when wiring than when stuffing pcbs. I'm using the same solder as before (Felder Ico-Core EL / Sn62Pb36Ag2) which contains 3.5% 1.1.3.B/ROL0 flux (which means Rosin I guess). In general I try to ventilate (= open window) and not to inhale those fumes and didn't run into any issues in the past, when building the Ambika with 6 voice cards for instance. However it appears to happen following days on which I've been soldering, so I start to wonder if this could be flux related. At first I didn't pay much attention and attributed this to food or wine (or both). Lately I've experienced some rather unpleasant condition - sort of nausea kicking in during the night and mostly fading over the course of the next day.
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