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timothyjager / JBC-Soldering-Controller

A DIY soldering controller for JBC T245 handle & C245 tips
MIT License
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HT420-A Tweezers support #4

Open nikifena opened 5 years ago

nikifena commented 5 years ago

Hi there. My name is Niki. I'm PCB and 3D designer and I have been making many /mostly analog/ projects for over 15 years. I checked your project. It looks good. I think to modify it a little bit the board since the tracks going to the pads has no teardrops and it's better to have ticker wires around the pads.

Anyway, I have JBC TH420-A soldering tweezers and I think it's good for having an optional way to power similar tweezers. There is already one free thermocouple input - the spare input of ADS1118. So the only one extra hardware modification will be one wire for the current sense for another VN5E010AH. Both drivers can share the same PWM.

I can modify the PCB with all new improvements but I can't modify the code. I'm a PCB designer.

What do you think about that?

Another "Extra" modification could be two inputs - one for JBC iron and another for iron/tweezers.

Thanks and waiting for your answer.

Niki

PaulusSmallus commented 5 years ago

If you have a look at the branch I made, there is code for tweezers. I designed it for PA120 tweezers, not 420. I have a feeling the maximum voltage is higher on the 420, so it would be worth checking it will work. In any case, the code is there if you want it. p.s. my PCB design is not great. my plan is do redo it. https://github.com/PaulusSmallus/JBC-Soldering-Controller

liuweisword commented 5 years ago

I want do it to can we do it together？ wei.liu@cecooleye.cn

PaulusSmallus commented 5 years ago

Just to update, according to this the HT420 will run off 24V, so it should work.

I just tried some PA120 tweezers and it almost works, but it needs calibrating. It seems to be a different type of thermocouple. You will need to detect the different types of irons, so you can use different calibration data.

nikifena commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the update! I started with the PCB design but I'm busy with some other projects. I hope I will be ready until the end of this year.

PaulusSmallus commented 5 years ago

Hello liu wei, I am sure there is something you can help with. What are you good at?

liuweisword commented 5 years ago

I am a chinese, everything the project need is so easy and cheap to get . I redesign your sch by orcad. Meger the arduino in the main board . I have a team with my friend include the software and hareware ,structure .

Can we design a product with comparable or even better performance than JBC?

PaulusSmallus commented 5 years ago

According to this licence, you can use this for commercial purposes as long as you include the same licence agreement.