gEDA-user: home made hot plate

[carzrgr8 at optonline.net]

I think this link has been tossed around before - sorry if it's a repeat.http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/present.php?p=Reflow%20SkilletThese guys did a study of the best reflow gizmo and found it to be $30 skillet!gene----- Original Message -----From: Dave N6NZ Date: Friday, March 2, 2007 1:11 pmSubject: gEDA-user: home made hot plateTo: gEDA user mailing list > 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> > > _______________________________________________> geda-user mailing list> geda-user at moria.seul.org> http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user> <div
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