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Reflow oven controller kickstarter

jdoleckijdolecki Posts: 726
edited 2014-12-20 05:02 in General Discussion
I know it an Arduino but it's really nice.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1070729460/zallus-oven-controller

Comments

  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-10-19 12:05
    I'm not seeing Arduino in this offering. Looks like a stand alone controller.

    Looks nice for the price. wonder which toaster ovens it has been checked with.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-10-19 15:11
    Looks like it's a MSP430G2553 MPU

    http://www.zallus.com/msp430-reflow-oven/

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  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    edited 2014-10-19 15:29
    I don't see anything wrong with the Zallus controller but I'd rather have a Propeller controlled oven myself.

    I know there have been several Propeller controlled reflow ovens.

    Our kitchen oven is controlled by a Propeller chip and I've used a Propeller to control a toaster oven to dry ore samples (as part of a chemical test) but I have yet to make a reflow oven.

    I think the main appeal to having a reflow oven Propeller controlled is it will be easier for me to modify the code.

    I don't recall who all have Propeller controlled reflow ovens. Maybe they'll remind us?

    Edit: Or we could look in the "Similar Threads" section.
  • ValeTValeT Posts: 308
    edited 2014-10-19 16:07
    This looks really cool!

    Too bad it isn't a propeller chip though.
  • Cluso99Cluso99 Posts: 18,069
    edited 2014-10-19 16:30
    I bought all the gear to make my own prop controlled oven. But then I got a real one, Torch T200C which is fantastic except for the $.
    Still interested to make a prop oven just for the fun of it, but too many other projects unless someone does the prop code.
  • Don MDon M Posts: 1,652
    edited 2014-10-19 17:28
    I just ordered one. Seems like a great deal. I already have one I got online a few years ago that works good. It's PC based and connected via USB to the controller. I like the fact of having a stand alone setup versus needing a PC to run the controller. My original one was from Silicon Horizons (Florida) but I think they are no longer around.
  • TCTC Posts: 1,019
    edited 2014-10-20 04:37
    Duane Degn wrote: »
    I don't see anything wrong with the Zallus controller but I'd rather have a Propeller controlled oven myself.

    I know there have been several Propeller controlled reflow ovens.

    Our kitchen oven is controlled by a Propeller chip and I've used a Propeller to control a toaster oven to dry ore samples (as part of a chemical test) but I have yet to make a reflow oven.

    I think the main appeal to having a reflow oven Propeller controlled is it will be easier for me to modify the code.

    I don't recall who all have Propeller controlled reflow ovens. Maybe they'll remind us?

    Edit: Or we could look in the "Similar Threads" section.

    I am still working on mine. But because of everything going on, I can't work on it like I want.
  • Mark_TMark_T Posts: 1,981
    edited 2014-10-20 18:36
    You don't need temperature control for a small home oven, so long as you get to callibrate a setting that corresponds to
    a sensible soaking temperature.

    Place board, set to to soak, wait 2 or 3 minutes (longer if large thermal masses on the board), crank to max and
    watch carefully till all the paste has reflowed across the board, turn off. The temperature rise and fall curves
    should be reasonable and the reflow temperature is more accurately judged by eye than thermocouple (which
    can never be exactly the same as the board temperature anyway).

    Its only for production runs that temperature control matters really...
  • Don MDon M Posts: 1,652
    edited 2014-12-20 05:02
    Just received my Zallus controller. Haven't connected it to my oven yet but did power it up to see it work. Very nice design. Simple to operate.
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