Homebrew PCBs

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "sailingto" <sailingtoo@...> wrote:
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> The "big" difference in the Brother fuser and other fusers is the temperature they work at - Brother is up over 400F, where HP is down around 300F....  not sure about anything used stand-alone.
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> Ken H>
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I've seen someone using a surplus fuser standalone, although I forget the site. They mounted it to a board and made a simple temperature controller circuit that monitored the thermistor on the rollers and switched the halogen lamps within to regulate the temperature. I believe they adapted a gearhead motor to drive the rollers, effectively building a laminator. It wasn't pretty, but it did the job.