If they're glowing you have an leaky soldering iron.
Or some other source of stray current.

No wonder you kept blowing chips with what you thought
was static <G>.

R

Jinx wrote:

>>They've been eclipsed by superbright LEDs. Vf is a bit higher,
>>but a 13,500 mcd green LED (@20mA) is quite bright (just not
>>blinding) at 2mA.
> 
> 
> Has anyone else noticed that UB whites glow (albeit dimly) when
> you're soldering them ? Could be potential for a free ride or some
> kind of field detector ?
> 
-- 
http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist