A white paper from Bourns about thermal protection PTCs on flyback converters. Link here (PDF) This paper examines the use of resettable polymer fuses for protecting offline flyback converters. Using a thermal model of the resettable fuse surrounding solder pads and copper to optimize the trip time so that the converter is protected during overloads, […]
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Preview: Open source soldering iron driver v1.5
Today we sent our updated soldering iron driver v1.5 PCB to be fabricated. This is a 100% through-hole reroute of Arhi’s latest gen 3 design. The ground plane is broken into power supply, analog, and digital sections to help reduce noise. PCBs will be available in the free PCB drawer soon if you’d like to […]
Open source soldering iron driver update
Arhi has been busy debugging noise from PTC type soldering iron sensors. The problem was the sensor’s sensitivity to the current used as a bias. If the current used is greater or less then 1mA the sensor picks up too much noise. In the latest revision of the Soldering iron driver both PTC and TC […]
Hakko tip temperature readings
Arhi continues his quest for soldering iron driver perfection. In the latest development, he attached a temperature sensor to the tip of his Hakko soldering iron, and compared the temperature between the tip and the sensor inside the heater. The readings on the graph he posted are almost identical below 50C, but there is a […]