[time-nuts] soldering QFN (was: GPS down converter question)

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 15:35:26 EST 2015


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 at 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
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