{"id":1527,"date":"2011-07-22T08:37:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T12:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2024-06-12T11:12:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T15:12:15","slug":"reflow-oven-shield-pid-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/reflow-oven-shield-pid-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflow Oven Shield [PID Showcase]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reason I created the PID library was to make it easier for people to integrate PID control into their projects.  Surprisingly, it&#8217;s actually happening!  I&#8217;m starting to see a lot of really cool implementations out there.  As a result, I&#8217;ve decided to start a new category of post: the PID Showcase.  These are projects that make me feel that all that work was worth it.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; here&#8217;s the first one:  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/shop\/reflow-oven-controller-shield-arduino-compatible\">Reflow Oven Controller Shield<\/a> from RocketScream.com<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/reflowOvenAssembled.jpg\" alt=\"Reflow Oven Sheild\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It integrates all the components necessary to turn a toaster oven into a reflow oven.  Thermocouple Chip&#8230; LCD&#8230; buzzer&#8230; awesome.  But the part that I love is how they completely owned the PID part of this project.  Look at this reflow curve: <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/striking\/includes\/timthumb.php?src=http:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/reflowCurveFinal.png&#038;h=364&#038;w=628&#038;zc=1\" alt=\"reflow\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They made use of setpoint ramping to get the heating rates just right.  The output is phenomenal.  This came out of a toaster oven:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/striking\/includes\/timthumb.php?src=http:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/miniUltraSolderJoint.jpg&#038;h=420&#038;w=628&#038;zc=1\" alt=\"wow\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Excellent work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason I created the PID library was to make it easier for people to integrate PID control into their projects. Surprisingly, it&#8217;s actually happening! I&#8217;m starting to see a lot of really cool implementations out there. As a result, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/reflow-oven-shield-pid-showcase\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,35],"tags":[41,42],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pid","category-showcase","tag-pid","tag-showcase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7215,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/7215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}