Some component packages are very difficult or impossible to solder with a traditional soldering iron.
Toaster oven reflow conversion.
Toaster oven to smd reflow oven conversion since i put up my kickstarter page i have received a few emails asking about controlling a toaster oven using the laminator temperature control board.
The entire tray can be filled with pcb s and all will reflow perfectly.
As i get more serious into my electronics hobby i need to work with more smd components.
X toaster is a controller board designed to convert any common toaster oven into an smt reflow oven.
I call it toast r reflow reflow.
This is something i have been thinking about myself so i decided to buy an oven and convert it into a smd reflow oven.
The reflow oven build described here is fully capable of fine pitch lead free soldering at very high temperatures and can do it consistently and reliably.
Having got fed up of hand soldering smt components and being unable to afford assembly at a c e m i thought i would have a go at a toaster oven conversion.
Hack a toaster oven for reflow soldering.
There are many such conversions on the web and most have their own design of external temperature controller.
Everybody and their brother has converted a toaster oven into a surface mount soldering reflow oven.
Sold in a kit.
It uses controleo3 a 6 relay programmable reflow oven controller.
Conversion of a toaster oven into a smt reflow oven.
To solve this problem i decided to hack a toaster oven t.