Soldering Iron Driver
From DP
Universal Soldering Iron Driver capable of driving both 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 Controller was designed by Arhi (Bogdan Kecman) and shared under public domain in our forums. With his consent we developed our PTH version 1.5 based on the 3rd generation of his driver.
From the get go the Soldering Iron Driver was conceived to drive Hakko 900M (clones) and irons. As an added bonus it was discovered Weller PES51 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
- various Software and Hardware How-to's
Software
- Under Development
Firmware
- Firmware page (how to update)
Development resources
- Patrick: Soldering iron driver v1 development
- Soldering iron driver v1.5 development forum
- Original Soldering iron controller gen 1-3 forum project log
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