Soldering Iron Driver
From DP
Universal Soldering Iron Driver capable of driving both K-type thermocouple and PTC type soldering irons.
[Available for $xx.xx] at Seeed Studio.
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Features
| Project Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Soldering Iron Driver |
| Buy it: | [ Get one for at Seeed Studio] |
| Price: | |
| Status: | [[Project status#Development_status|]] |
| Manufacturing: | Shipping |
| Forum: | [ Soldering Iron Driver Forum] |
The Soldering Iron Driver gen1 was designed by Arhi (Bogdan Kecman) and shared under public domain in our forums.
We really liked his idea and over the period of a few months we helped him develop if further to the now available gen3. With his consent we developed our PTH version 1.5 based on the gen3 driver.
From the get go the Soldering Iron Driver was conceived to drive Hakko 935 (clones) and Solomon irons. As an added bonus it was discovered Weller PES-51 irons were compatible as well. The key to this universal design is the analog front end which is capable of reading both Thermocouple and PTC temperature sensors. The SID features:
- Compatible with any PTC or TC soldering iron.
- PID temperature control.
- USB data transfer, and firmware update.
- UART data transfer.
- HD44780 2x16 character LCD.
- external NTC temperature sensor, for calibration and better cold junction compensation of TC type sensors.
- Low noise, zero crossing AC heater control.
Hardware
How-to
- warius Software and Hardware How tos
Software
- Under Development
Firmware
- Firmware page (how to update)
Development resources
- link to Dev page.
Download
- firmware, eagle files, SVN.etc
Resources
- Hakko, Solomon, Weller Iron links
- K type thermocouple
- PTC
- Reading K-type, and ptc
- PIC 18F2550 datasheet
- PIC 18F reference manual [PDF!]
- Microchip C18 C compiler
- Microchip USB stack
- Diolan USB PIC bootloader
License
- Hardware: CC-BY-SA
- Software: CC-BY-SA
- Firmware: CC-BY-SA
- Bootloader: GPL