{"id":10291,"date":"2015-04-28T21:42:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=10291"},"modified":"2015-04-28T21:42:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:42:25","slug":"adding-pid-temperature-controller-regular-soldering-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/adding-pid-temperature-controller-regular-soldering-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding a PID temperature controller to a regular soldering station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Doughty has posted an article showing <a href=\"https:\/\/pcbsmoke.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/21\/soldering-iron-pid-temperature-controller\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>how to add a PID temperature controller<\/strong><\/a> to a regular sodering iron for better performance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some plug-in soldering irons\u00a0are adjustable. Some models have a temperature adjustment\u00a0built into them and function\u00a0like a light dimmer.\u00a0Although better than units without any kind of temperature control, they are somewhat\u00a0limited.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking at PID temperature controllers and learned that they worked with K-type thermocouples. Then I started looking at K-type thermocouples and I thought that\u00a0there may be\u00a0a way to insert one of them inside a soldering iron and take a reading from the back of the heating element\u00a0on the opposite end of the soldering tip.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_10292\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=10292\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10292\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10292\" alt=\"Adding a PID temperature controller to a regular soldering station\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/soldering-iron-3rd-test-with-tip-thermometer.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adding a PID temperature controller to a regular soldering station<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Doughty has posted an article showing how to add a PID temperature controller to a regular sodering iron for better performance. Some plug-in soldering irons\u00a0are adjustable. Some models have a temperature adjustment\u00a0built into them and function\u00a0like a light dimmer.\u00a0Although better than units without any kind of temperature control, they are somewhat\u00a0limited. I was looking at PID temperature controllers and learned that they worked with K-type thermocouples. Then I started looking at K-type thermocouples and I thought that\u00a0there may be\u00a0a way to insert one of them inside a soldering iron and take a reading from the back of the heating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[1172,1173],"class_list":["post-10291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-and-tricks","tag-pid-controller","tag-temperature-adjustment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10294,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions\/10294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}