gEDA-user: home made hot plate

[Andy Peters]

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