These are a fairly nice and cheap hot air tool. The really nice thing is they have been reverse-engineered and an open-source firmware is available. I have one. Have also built a nice reflow oven out of a $40 Walmart toaster oven... I used the temperature control PID code out of Lady Heather to control the heaters/fan. There are lots of clones of the Youyue unit with similar looking names, some with a Samsung processor instead of the AVR so you need to be careful selecting one. A guy has found a way to hack the AVR firmware/chip into the Samsung based units. http://budgetlightforum.com/node/27876

Mark My thinking is to buy one from the guy who sold 2560 of them. Others have a far lower count. So figured he was the right one. Oh another project. Hack the solder station. Maybe I will wait a while on that. On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Mark Sims <holrum@hotmail.com> wrote: > These are a fairly nice and cheap hot air tool. The really nice thing is > they have been reverse-engineered and an open-source firmware is > available. I have one. Have also built a nice reflow oven out of a $40 > Walmart toaster oven... I used the temperature control PID code out of Lady > Heather to control the heaters/fan. > There are lots of clones of the Youyue unit with similar looking names, > some with a Samsung processor instead of the AVR so you need to be careful > selecting one. A guy has found a way to hack the AVR firmware/chip into > the Samsung based units. > http://budgetlightforum.com/node/27876 > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. >