On Monday 03 May 2004 03:50 pm, Stefan Trethan wrote:
> >> Supply it with rectified (and cap. filtered) AC and you get the
> >> necessary "plus" in power for enabling the control loop to work - so you
> >> can still use your 110VAC heater.
> > Control loop? Where's the feedback portion of it?
> either the heater itself or a external small thermistor/thermocouple..
Ah, there's the catch. That sort of thing would mean modifying the iron
itself, or worse yet the element, and I ∗really∗ don't want to go there.
At some point, perhaps I'll stumble across a really good deal on one of
those "soldering stations", or perhaps not. I had a period of several
∗years∗ go by here without me having fired an iron up at all, so it's
probably not worth my while to make any serious investment in such a thing.