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dissidence:
http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Soldering_Iron_Driver

i found this project a few months ago, but i ordered up a board from seeed. http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/open-soldering-station-pcb-p-1282.html?cPath=174

i thought it was a interesting idea, and i have most of the passive stuff already, though i am lacking the pic and all the other IC's

its been a interesting build so far, and few the price i thought it was worth a try,  though i am interested to see what other people think about it.

FlipThatFlop:
Its an interesting Idea but one thing I didn't see anything about is being ESD Safe so that might be a deal breaker for some people (Maybe).

Also details are a bit lacking about the power supply design.

http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=2457

I read the link above and he mentions bringing in 24VAC into the board and having a external Fuse. That could be a typo (240VAC standard in some countries) but you might want to double check. I wonder if the input to the board can be 120VAC&240VAC.

fake-name:
Man, why go through all that work, and target a crap iron?

If you're going to make your own base-station, target JBC or Metcal irons. Doing all that work to just have what is basically a Hakko with a fancy base-station is silly.

N2IXK:
I must have missed the reasoning behind developing an "open source" soldering iron controller in the first place.  :-//

Are the commercial units somehow spying on users or implementing some kind of DRM, locking users into only using certain brands of solder/flux/etc.?

If any part of the soldering system was going to be "open sourced", why the temp controller and not the iron itself, to work against manufacturer lock-in of tips, heaters, etc?

filip_cro:

--- Quote from: FlipThatFlop on April 21, 2014, 12:36:55 pm ---I read the link above and he mentions bringing in 24VAC into the board and having a external Fuse. That could be a typo (240VAC standard in some countries) but you might want to double check. I wonder if the input to the board can be 120VAC&240VAC.

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You need to use transformer  :palm:

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