Homebrew PCBs

Thanks,  but I'm not the person having problems, I commented on the 
fact that I did not have any issues with a modified GBC Docuseal 95P. 
He might have bought a laminator that did have hardware to deal with 
the PCB thickness, so it jammed and burned out.

You have an interesting setup. I want to do a project later in summer 
where I will have temperature control to an infrared oven by Black 
and Decker. It will be overkill as I will be using an ARM F4 CPU 
board to read temperatures from a K thermocouple and control the oven 
heater along a programmed temperature profile. Way too much CPU power 
but I can buy it for less that $11 and it's Arduino compatible, good 
for buying cheap accessory boards. It's the ST Nucleo STM32F401;
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http://www.st.com/web/en/catalog/mmc/FM141/SC1169/SS1577/LN1810?icmp=stm32f401line_pron_nb-dynamic_jan2014 
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Perhaps after that project I will have the opportunity to do a 
temperature controller for the GBC laminator, it would be nice to be 
able to vary the temperature. Since the laminator uses a stepper 
motor to move the item to be laminated it would be nice to also have 
speed  control of the lamination process.

We live in an interesting age, too many toys and not enough time.


At 12:25 PM 3/24/2014, you wrote:
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>I've been using a GBC creative for quite a while now, and I've modded it
>for temperature control too. Maybe you just got a bad one?

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