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Re: gEDA-user: random project idea

On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:28:43 -0500
John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Levente wrote:
> 
> > http://web.interware.hu/lekovacs/reflow_oven/index.html
> > 
> > Actually, it is an electric heater. The problem is that the heat exchange
> > is slow, and it can't maintain the slopes coming from the heat profile. I
> > use a PT100 thermo-sensor mounted on a pice of PCB (not the PCB being
> > reflowed.)
> 
> Can you increase the number of heater rods?

Well, yes. The triac can switch 20Amps on 230V that is plenty of power. I
am thinking of some heat shield around the oven. That could reflect IR power
to the board, increasing the efficiency.


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Levente
http://web.interware.hu/lekovacs



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