Toaster Oven Reflow Controller

The unit comes as a kit with all the needed components for a fully independent system.

Toaster oven reflow controller.

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. The reflow toaster controller from spark fun electronics. 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. The problem i have with the oven pid controller combos i used was that the oven took too long to get up to temperature as it was on the two ovens i tried and then to cool down it took too long too.

This board was specifically developed to control a toaster oven hot plate reflow oven or other high power device. Runs on a pic 16f88 with boot loader pre loaded no programmer required. There is also significant thermal inconsistency throughout the off the shelf toaster ovens as it is. Automate your pcb reflow oven anywhere in the world reeflow is a low cost high performance solution to turn any toaster oven into an advanced reflow oven that can be securely accessed globally.

Reeflow patent pending using tapconnect technology securely connects to the web allowing you to easily configure multiple heating profiles for your oven. That s where the reflow toaster controller comes into play. 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.

The classic ceramic heaters the ones you find inside your big kitchen oven and the newer quartz heaters. Real reflow ovens are usually expensive like many other manufacturing tools but ordinary toaster ovens can be used in reflow soldering with few modifications. 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. To control the oven s temperature i created my own reflow toaster oven controller circuit.

They are much cheaper than real reflow ovens but temperature cannot be set programmatically or accurately. 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. No reflow oven controllers aren t. 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.