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110v Soldering Station Build No. 2

This project is build number 2 of a 110v temperature controlled soldering station. It is a follow-up post to the project that I was working on last October.

Blog post with complete details here:
https://pcbsmoke.wordpress.com/2016/04/ ... uild-no-2/

This version has a couple of improvements over the first build. This new soldering iron is a better unit and was less expensive than the first one.

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A chisel tip plus a selection of other tips was available for this soldering iron instead of being limited to a conical tip only.

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This new soldering iron includes  a ground wire which made it possible for a grounded connection.

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Like the first version, a thermocouple was mounted internally inside the soldering iron and the power cord was replaced with a flexible multi-conductor cord and a 4-pin DIN connector.

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The thermocouple was adjusted so that the tip temperature matched the thermocouple reading making it unnecessary to require any temperature offset adjustment in the controller.

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This is an easy project that requires only basic skills to build and it makes a pretty good shop tool. It’s performance is on par with similar commercially available units.