Hi guys,
I need something like soldering iron but for lower temperature, for my leather craft, to go low as 40c, and at least high as 100°C. There is exact thing but is very expensive,
it is called Fileteuse Edge Creaser and it cost 500$ and above. Don't know why but this tips have exposed heater coil, there are also some cheaper replicas, but didn't look much to it, because all this is to expensive for me, at least for now.
Only affordable thing that I found for similar purpose and lower temp range is this:
It has cartridge heater with built in thermocouple, range from 50°c-350°C. I would need to change this massive tip and make my own.
Problem is, I don't know how accurate and durable it is. On this picture you can see that tip although is advertise to be aluminum it is not, it is some alloy painted to look like aluminum, so other parts can be also of bad quality, but than again it is cheap, around 17$.
So my option is this iron, with hand made tips, or alternative, to make one by my own.
If I choose to make it than I don't want just something with dimmer, or something with only on/off regulation, I would like to have both.
First I was looking to pid controllers, they are cheap, and should be better than simple on/off regulator, but one guy who made pid soldering iron said that pid-s are not very good with tip heat loss and that's why are slow in adjusting desired temp.
Than there is dimming /proportional thermostat, like for pets, terrariums etc. i think it would be ideal for me but they are all for animal environment and i think highest temperature is something like 45°C, I didn't found anything higher.
So I need to improvise, but because lack of my knowledge it will be only half automated.
Would this work:
1.cheap soldering iron - 30w, direct 220v AC (already have it)
2.cheap digital thermostat, W3230, XH-W3002 or similar, it has range from -50°to 120°C (4-6$)
3. cheap SCR voltage controller, 220v, 2000w (2$)
I want to add scr voltage regulator, to manually adjust voltage and with that also max temp, to be as close as it can to desired settings, so period between low and high (example 65low and 70high) temperature settings would last longer, and there will be smaller amount of relay switching, longer life, also it will not often and by much exceed top temperature value settings..
I don't know if I'm looking at this the right way. Maybe I will get only slower heating and nothing else, and it will be better to remove SCR voltage controller, and leave iron to work at full 220v with simply on/of regulation.
what do you think guys, also if you think that is good to have voltage adjustment, how does this cheap china SCR regulators react with often on/off switching from temperature regulator. Will it die faster or it is not affected with it to much. I did watch youtube bigclive video and read comments about it , but there is nothing regard this....
(Please keep in mind that i don't have big knowledge about circuits, arduino, etc. For example until two days I didn't know what is thermocouple, but I am good in diy and with little help I can do a lot of stuff as long as they are not over complicated.)
Please help, whats your advice on all this, tnx in advance
I need something like soldering iron but for lower temperature, for my leather craft, to go low as 40c, and at least high as 100°C. There is exact thing but is very expensive,
it is called Fileteuse Edge Creaser and it cost 500$ and above. Don't know why but this tips have exposed heater coil, there are also some cheaper replicas, but didn't look much to it, because all this is to expensive for me, at least for now.
Only affordable thing that I found for similar purpose and lower temp range is this:
It has cartridge heater with built in thermocouple, range from 50°c-350°C. I would need to change this massive tip and make my own.
Problem is, I don't know how accurate and durable it is. On this picture you can see that tip although is advertise to be aluminum it is not, it is some alloy painted to look like aluminum, so other parts can be also of bad quality, but than again it is cheap, around 17$.
So my option is this iron, with hand made tips, or alternative, to make one by my own.
If I choose to make it than I don't want just something with dimmer, or something with only on/off regulation, I would like to have both.
First I was looking to pid controllers, they are cheap, and should be better than simple on/off regulator, but one guy who made pid soldering iron said that pid-s are not very good with tip heat loss and that's why are slow in adjusting desired temp.
Than there is dimming /proportional thermostat, like for pets, terrariums etc. i think it would be ideal for me but they are all for animal environment and i think highest temperature is something like 45°C, I didn't found anything higher.
So I need to improvise, but because lack of my knowledge it will be only half automated.
Would this work:
1.cheap soldering iron - 30w, direct 220v AC (already have it)
2.cheap digital thermostat, W3230, XH-W3002 or similar, it has range from -50°to 120°C (4-6$)
3. cheap SCR voltage controller, 220v, 2000w (2$)
I want to add scr voltage regulator, to manually adjust voltage and with that also max temp, to be as close as it can to desired settings, so period between low and high (example 65low and 70high) temperature settings would last longer, and there will be smaller amount of relay switching, longer life, also it will not often and by much exceed top temperature value settings..
I don't know if I'm looking at this the right way. Maybe I will get only slower heating and nothing else, and it will be better to remove SCR voltage controller, and leave iron to work at full 220v with simply on/of regulation.
what do you think guys, also if you think that is good to have voltage adjustment, how does this cheap china SCR regulators react with often on/off switching from temperature regulator. Will it die faster or it is not affected with it to much. I did watch youtube bigclive video and read comments about it , but there is nothing regard this....
(Please keep in mind that i don't have big knowledge about circuits, arduino, etc. For example until two days I didn't know what is thermocouple, but I am good in diy and with little help I can do a lot of stuff as long as they are not over complicated.)
Please help, whats your advice on all this, tnx in advance
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