Hi everyone, I have an old American Beauty resistive soldering station that was being thrown out at work some many years ago. Stupidly I did not take the transformer (I could not take it on a helicopter due to weight restrictions) and now I wish to rebuild it (the soldering station, not the helicopter) so I can solder some MIL_SPEC connector pins. I have the resistive tweezer hand-piece.
The model is: https://www.americanbeautytools.com/Resistance-Soldering/117
Would anyone who has one of these units be willing to give the voltage and current at the output for the hand-piece at the midrange setting? I will then work back to selecting a suitable transformer for 240V (I'm in Australia). I plan to just use an AC chopper circuit from a dimmer switch to control the input waveform, and a simple bridge rectifier to smooth the output to DC. Nothing fancy.
I contacted American Beauty and they advised me just to purchase a new unit, which is not really feasible at this point due to the price tag and the fact I only need it for a small one-off project.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Cheers,
Tristan.
The model is: https://www.americanbeautytools.com/Resistance-Soldering/117
Would anyone who has one of these units be willing to give the voltage and current at the output for the hand-piece at the midrange setting? I will then work back to selecting a suitable transformer for 240V (I'm in Australia). I plan to just use an AC chopper circuit from a dimmer switch to control the input waveform, and a simple bridge rectifier to smooth the output to DC. Nothing fancy.
I contacted American Beauty and they advised me just to purchase a new unit, which is not really feasible at this point due to the price tag and the fact I only need it for a small one-off project.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Cheers,
Tristan.