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PARTZ

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RESIST NEGATIVE!

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CLEANORNG

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SURFICE SODDERING!!!

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SNADWHICH

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CIRCUIT COOKER

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So you made... new electronics for a reflow oven? What's different?

features:
- Individual control of four heating elements (2 top, 2 bottom)
- Oven bay thermocouple (measure up to 1000° F)
- Oven bay cooling fan
- Temperature sensor on motherboard
- Circuit bay cooling fan
- Computer serial port connection
- Dedicated non-volatile EEPROM for storing target reflow profiles or recording actual reflow profile
- Three microcontrollers run in parallel for simultaneous sound playback, animated graphics, maintain reflow cycle, record to EEPROM or stream data to host PC, and menu navigation
- 128x64 graphical LCD
- Four input buttons
- Sound output
- Internal 120vac -> 5vdc switching power supply
- Master on/off power switch



mostly just for fun and learned a lot in teh process. the reflow oven motherboard was my first surface mount PCB to begin with. i painstakingly soldered it using a heatblower tip on a butane torch... now that I have an Aoyue hotair rework station i might honestly never use the oven anyway

**** yeah dude

I am going to do the exact same thing in a few months. I got a 9 cubic foot kiln for free on craigslist, but the electronics are shot to hell so I'm going to build a new set when I get back to my hobbies in the spring.

i want to know what skills are necessary to do this

And I thought my attempt at merging a NES/SNES/N64 into one machine was hard. (It wasn't, just time consuming, which is why it isn't complete....)

understanding some electrical parts! take something apart! google the numbers written on the chips you find

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHERvqgSurM