Toaster Oven Reflow Controller

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Toaster oven reflow controller.

No reflow oven controllers aren t. Reeflow patent pending using tapconnect technology securely connects to the web allowing you to easily configure multiple heating profiles for your oven. This circuit uses an atmega32u4 microcontroller to monitor the oven s temperature using a thermocouple and ad595aq and then control the oven s heating element using a solid state relay. Introduction to the manually controlled toaster oven reflow december 14 2015 by robert keim with the help of a diy thermocouple measurement system you can use a cheap toaster oven to accurately reproduce a reflow soldering temperature profile.

External controller board can be used to control these ovens. To control the oven s temperature i created my own reflow toaster oven controller circuit. By the way this reflow oven didn t work. There are two kind of heaters usually mounted inside a toaster oven.

The reflow toaster controller from spark fun electronics. The classic ceramic heaters the ones you find inside your big kitchen oven and the newer quartz heaters. Runs on a pic 16f88 with boot loader pre loaded no programmer required. While both of them can do the job of rising temperature high enough for reflowing quartz elements tends to heat up and cool down faster.

It uses a k type thermocouple and unlike every other reflow controller we ve ever seen dirk is actually checking the accuracy of his temperature probe. The unit comes as a kit with all the needed components for a fully independent system. A reflow oven controller equipped with a display easy to program easy to operate with clear graphical feedback on every session for a fast and easy oven conversion get the complete kit easy wirings every needed connector supplied in the kit get dimensions a sketchup file and a user manual engineered for an easy mounting on a front panel. All we aim to create is an embedded system that takes in temperatures and actuates a relay that controls the heating elements effectively controlling the temperature.

That s where the reflow toaster controller comes into play. Real reflow ovens are usually expensive like many other manufacturing tools but ordinary toaster ovens can be used in reflow soldering with few modifications. There is also significant thermal inconsistency throughout the off the shelf toaster ovens as it is. This board was specifically developed to control a toaster oven hot plate reflow oven or other high power device.