Homebrew PCBs

well, at least one thing went pretty well today...
the temperature controller is operating.
just one transistor and a trimmer resistor needed, works good with the
solid state relais. at the moment it is switching full wave
(the solid state relais is one with zero crossing detection)
but i guess this would be no work to convert to phase angle control.

so if anyone wants to run a fuser out of the printer/copier, no problem at 
all.

now i will look at the spring mechanism (how to adjust) and for a drive 
motor i will
use a slow power drill for now....

BUT, i really doubt that this fuser is the solution to all problems...

ST