refloaster - SMT reflow toaster oven

I have an aldi special toaster oven sat at home, waiting to be converted
into a SMT reflow oven like this: http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/60.

I also have a thermocouple and a solid state relay to be used on it.

Is anyone interested in combining these with a bit of magic and making an
SMT reflow oven we can use at the space? If so, i’ll bring them over on
wednesday.

Definitely…I think it would be rude not to!

Alex

I have an aldi special toaster oven sat at home, waiting to be converted
into a SMT reflow oven like this: http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/60.

I also have a thermocouple and a solid state relay to be used on it.

Is anyone interested in combining these with a bit of magic and making an
SMT reflow oven we can use at the space? If so, i’ll bring them over on
wednesday.


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just remembered, the thermocouple is a K-type, so it’ll need a fancy
instrumentation amplifier. We could get a P type instead, and just hook it
to an ADC. Or use a thermistor, but that might be too slow and inaccurate?On 11 April 2011 17:09, Alexander Lang alexanderlang1980@googlemail.comwrote:

Definitely…I think it would be rude not to!

Alex
On 11 Apr 2011 17:08, “Bob Clough” parag0n@ivixor.net wrote:

I have an aldi special toaster oven sat at home, waiting to be converted
into a SMT reflow oven like this: http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/60.

I also have a thermocouple and a solid state relay to be used on it.

Is anyone interested in combining these with a bit of magic and making an
SMT reflow oven we can use at the space? If so, i’ll bring them over on
wednesday.


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just remembered, the thermocouple is a K-type, so it’ll need a fancy
instrumentation amplifier. We could get a P type instead, and just hook
it to an ADC. Or use a thermistor, but that might be too slow and
inaccurate?

I think I may have a platinum thermistor which may be suitable for this
sort of thing. It’ll be easier than a type-K and should be capable of
going above 200degC.

Ben Dooks bjdooks@googlemail.com http://www.fluff.org/ben/