As a follow up to the Soldering Iron PID temperature controller post, Mike Doughty of PCB Smoke blogged about on how to modify an ordinary plugin soldering iron to work with a PID temperature controller – second version: This new version has some improvements since the first version back in April, 2015. The soldering iron […]
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Soldering Iron PID temperature controller
Mike has posted a detailed tutorial on how to modify an ordinary plugin soldering iron to work with a digital temperature controller: A thermocouple was mounted internally inside the soldering iron so it is out of the way. The idea was to find the “sweet spot” at the back of the heating unit inside the soldering iron […]