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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

How can I contact you via email?

Can you send me a mail somehow? I'm not fimilar with github.

Thanks.
Niki

Hello, I have the problem that although both tips are connected to the same GND, the tips affect each other when they touch. When the tips touch, one tip gets a negative or near zero temperature, the temperature seems to add up on the other tip. This causes the PID controller to heat one tip too high.

Can anyone reproduce this problem. Is it due to the ADS1118. I am using a PA120 tweezers. Have an attiny 3216 and matched the program.

Hi

I'm interested in the project. Do you have any video demo?, how it performs? Or maybe some pictures of the build?
I'm interested to build one myself

Thanks!

Hi, I want to implement this project. I've gone trough the sketch and all libraries, and it compiles successfully, but it's oversized. My board setup is Arduino Leonardo, which I found is the analog of the Pro Micro. This is the error message -
`arduino_build_334303/JBC-Soldering-Controller.ino.elf
Sketch uses 31454 bytes (109%) of program storage space. Maximum is 28672 bytes.

Global variables use 808 bytes (31%) of dynamic memory, leaving 1752 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 2560 bytes.
Sketch too big; see http://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Troubleshooting#size for tips on reducing it.
Error compiling for board Arduino Leonardo.`