Solder Pot Controller

[Lorenzo M. Oliver]

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In 2006 to be RoHS compliant Parallax, Inc. moved toward making all products lead-free including the BASIC Stamp Modules which we manufacture in-house. This required a new Lead-Free Solder Pot to dip the modules in. The new Solder Pot did not come with a temperature control. Instead we created our own Solder Pot Controller which keeps the temperature at our specified set point. The Solder Pot Controller does this by comparing the current temperature to the set temperature. The current temperature is gotten via our own Thermocouple Kit and a pin probe which goes into the Solder Pot.