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Single or dual station? #17

Closed robot-army closed 8 years ago

robot-army commented 8 years ago

Do we want this thing to be able to drive two irons? (one big, one small, or held as chop-sticks for removing SMD passives?)

jeremypoulter commented 8 years ago

Could dual outputs also be used for a hot air gun?

robot-army commented 8 years ago

I'm not sure that there's a hot air gun that can be easily just 'fed volts' to make it go (equivalent to the Weller tips). If there is, integrating it would be awesome, but for now I think it'd be more realistic to stick to multiples of the weller tips.

One thing that could be quite interesting would be to run both outputs into two tips held in some sort of hot-tweezer arrangement.

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Could dual outputs also be used for a hot air gun?

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plett commented 8 years ago

If the hotstick controller is cheap enough, I'd just make a second one if I wanted to control a second iron, so don't see a need for that in the design. Hot-tweezers might be interesting, but I don't know enough about the design of the tweezers to know if they need dual-channel control.

robot-army commented 8 years ago

OK, good point. Single-station for now.