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Soldering Iron Driver

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Name: Soldering Iron Driver

Buy it: [ Get one for $7.00 at Seeed Studio]

Price: $7.00

Status: [[Project status#Development_status|]]

Manufacturing: Shipping

Forum: [ Soldering Iron Driver Forum]

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Universal Soldering Iron Driver capable of driving both thermocouple and PTC type soldering irons.

Read about the design.

[Available for $7.00] at Seeed Studio.

The Soldering Iron Controller was designed by Arhi (Bogdan Kecman) and shared under public domain in our forums. With his consent we developed our through hole version based on the 3rd generation of his driver.

From the get go the Soldering Iron Driver was conceived to drive Hakko 900M (clones) and Solomon irons. As an added bonus it was discovered Weller PES51 irons were compatible as well.

The key to this universal design is the analog front-end which is capable of reading both Thermocouple and PTC temperature sensors. The SID features:

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The hardware was developed by Arhi in the forum. His initial gen1 design used a PIC16F690 soldered on a perfboard. Since then he moved to the PIC18F2550 in gen2 and gen3. Images below are of gen2(left) and gen3 right), pictured above is our through hole

[hide]Contents1 Features2 Hardware3 How-to4 Tested soldering irons5 Firmware6 Development resources7 Download8 Resources9 License

Features

Compatible with any PTC or TC soldering iron.PID temperature control.USB data transfer, and firmware update.UART data transfer.HD44780 2x16 character LCD.external NTC temperature sensor, for calibration and better cold junction compensation of TC type sensors.Low noise, zero crossing AC heater control.

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version of gen3.

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There are two versions of the firmware, one for controlling the device with buttons, another for controlling it via an encoder.

Soldering Iron Driver design overview

How-toOriginal (Arhi's) design forum threadDangerous Prototypes v1.5 forum thread

Tested soldering ironsHakko 900 series, and clones (PTC sensor)

HAKKO 907 ironHAKKO 908 ironQUICK 907A iron (HAKKO clone, different characteristics of the sensor)GORDAK iron (HAKKO clone, different characteristics of the sensor)ATTEN iron (HAKKO clone, different characteristics of the sensor)NONAME HAKKO clone (identical RTD characteristics)

Solomon SL/HQ irons (Thermocouple sensorSOLOMON SL 10SOLOMON HQ 10SOLOMON HQ 30

Weller PES51 (Thermocouple sensor)

Firmware

Button SID firmwareEncoder SID firmware

Development resourcesPatrick: Soldering iron driver v1 developmentSoldering iron driver v1.5 development forumOriginal Soldering iron controller gen 1-3 forum project log

Soldering Iron Controller gen1, and gen2Soldering Iron Controller gen3

DownloadSoldering Iron Driver (DP version1.5) eagle files and gerbers in our SVNFirmware, and Arhi's hardware at source forge

ResourcesHakko 900MSolomon HQ and SL ironsWeller PES51ThermocouplePTC ThermistorReading K-type, and ptc (app note, ask arhi about itPIC 18F2550 datasheetPIC 18F reference manual [PDF!]

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Microchip C18 C compilerMicrochip USB stackDiolan USB PIC bootloader

LicenseHardware: CC-0 (public domain)Firmware: CC-AL (Creative Commons Attribution License)

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