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I made a quick measurement to see how linear the iron's temperature sensor is. Since I don't have a thermocouple I used a Pt1000 strapped to the heating element like this:
So I had one DMM measure the Pt1000's resistance and another one measure the resistance of the iron's sensor. Afterwards I calculated the temperature from the Pt1000's values and came up with this graph:
Read more »just some notes, can probably be moved to components section once finalized
I might be falling into a pattern...
For now I just want to collect all the sources in one place. The list is somewhat sorted but hopefully I'll go over this list again and summarize all/most of them and maybe do some more sorting.
A quick heads up: There are a lot of duplicate links but I wanted to document for myself how/where I found the projects.
Hakko 907:
Hakko T12
Weller RT:
Weller WSP80:
Modded mains soldering iron:
Misc:
While I focused on soldering stations here, you might also want to check out the official soldering-tools list if you haven't already.
Edit 2016-03-28: Added #Soldering pen
Edit 2016-03-28 #2: Added http://www.eosystems.ro/index.php/projects/esol...
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Thank you for concentrating the resources in one place!. I personally have two hakko irons coming from China and want to assemble then a station; will be looking at your work!
Glad to hear you have some use for this :)
I'm very interested to see your take on a station with two irons!
Actually it will be one iron at a time :) . I bought two just in case
I thought about extending my station to two irons once it's done but having spare parts on hand is definitely a good call. Now I wonder what parts of these cheap irons are most prone to failure; since you can buy pretty much all parts individually it might suffice to stock up on the weak ones.
Maybe you can tell that I've been working on this for a while before releasing it ;)
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Stefan: Don't leave this out:
http://www.eosystems.ro/index.php/projects/esol