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Category: Soldering
Soldering pen for Weller RT tips with OLED display
vlk @ hackaday.io build a very nice soldering pen with a OLED display. I found some projects where is used Weller soldering tips designed for WMRP soldering iron with standard 3.5mm jack and inside the tip is also thermocouple for sensing temperature. These tips are not so cheap but...
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WPS80 digital soldering station
James @ seeed.cc show us how to build a DIY digital soldering station using a WPS80 soldering iron. I always liked soldering tools with good quality. Though I currently have a nice ELV 50 Watts digital soldering station already, I decided to build my own soldering base station using...
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$15 Arduino-Based Reflow Oven Controller
A reflow oven is one of the most useful tools for hardware developers, a machine used primarily for reflow soldering of surface mount electronic components to printed circuit boards (PCB). ESTechnical, a hardware manufacturer based in UK, works hard to produce open source hardware gadgets...
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CSI Premier 75W and Hakko 936 Solder Station Teardowns
Todd Harrison @ toddfun.com did the teardown of the CSI 75W solder station as well as the Hakko 936: The Hakko of course had all analog circuits using operational amplifiers and potentiometers as well as a temperature sensor in the iron tip to signal back to a triac chip controller...
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Top-level Weller soldering stations for even better prices
Now even you can afford the best, what´s available on the field of soldering and service. A fact, that we also try to transform better purchasing conditions on You – our customers, we´ve already mentioned to you few times in our articles. This time we have this pleasant...
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WXR3031 rework station will replace you three devices
Soldering, deslodering, hot-air works but also a record of your work in a PC – this is the Weller WXR 3031. Good soldering station is usually a fundament of a workplace. Desoldering station is usually a necessity if you work in development or service. And a hot-air station? – this...
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Making A SMD Reflow Oven
by packetbob @ instructables.com: I decided to put together a toaster oven and wanted something that could handle large boards and possibly do small production runs. Doing a web search, you will find many options for toaster oven reflow controllers. They range from one-off designs...
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