Re: gEDA-user: home made hot plate

[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 2, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Ryan Seal wrote:

> 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?

How would you attach it to the hot plate?

-a



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