- Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:52 am
#42893
Hey everyone! I'm really excited about one of my current projects, I thought I'd share it with you.
Some of you may already know about it, but for those of you that don't, it's a toaster oven reflow controller. It's all solid state, based upon a triac instead of a mechanical relay. Well, enough babbling, like they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, and there a lots of pictures!
The PCBs were fabbed by BatchPCB, designed with Eagle. All of the parts were purchased through Mouser, except the microcontroller (Microchip, free sample, =), the regulator (Linear Technology, free sample), the thermocouple chip (Maxim/Dallas, and again, free sample), and the inductors which were purchased from coilcraft. The oven was some $20 1500W six slice oven that I got on sale at Wal-Mart.
I realize I'm lacking on details at the moment, but I'm in a bit of a rush, I'll post more details a bit later.
Oh, and I thought I'd mention, this is my very first project, so questions, comments and criticism are more than welcome.
Photos:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ReKlipz/Tor ... AEgAElUKqc
-Nate
Some of you may already know about it, but for those of you that don't, it's a toaster oven reflow controller. It's all solid state, based upon a triac instead of a mechanical relay. Well, enough babbling, like they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, and there a lots of pictures!
The PCBs were fabbed by BatchPCB, designed with Eagle. All of the parts were purchased through Mouser, except the microcontroller (Microchip, free sample, =), the regulator (Linear Technology, free sample), the thermocouple chip (Maxim/Dallas, and again, free sample), and the inductors which were purchased from coilcraft. The oven was some $20 1500W six slice oven that I got on sale at Wal-Mart.
I realize I'm lacking on details at the moment, but I'm in a bit of a rush, I'll post more details a bit later.
Oh, and I thought I'd mention, this is my very first project, so questions, comments and criticism are more than welcome.
Photos:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ReKlipz/Tor ... AEgAElUKqc
-Nate