Re: gEDA-user: home made hot plate

[Ryan Seal <rseal@xxxxxxxx>]

Dave N6NZ wrote:
> Seeing DJ's hot plate photo brought to mind a link I once saw, where a 
> guy built a home-brew SMT hot plate.  I can't find the link, but as I 
> recall, he used a few low-ohm high-watt power resistors epoxied to a 
> piece of aluminum sheet.  He drove it with a 0-30V bench supply and 
> controlled the temperature manually by varying the voltage.
>
> Seems to me that one should be able to build a pretty good hot plate 
> that way for not a lot of money.  Although I would think that copper 
> might give more uniform heat spreading than aluminum (at much greater 
> expense, however, unless you get lucky).  And a thermostatic 
> temperature control shouldn't be hard.
>
> -dave
Why not heating wire?
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