{"id":800,"date":"2011-09-07T18:52:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T10:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2013-07-06T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T05:00:00","slug":"from-the-mailbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/from-the-mailbox\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Mailbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our customer Ken McClain from US, mailed us on how the Reflow Oven Controller shield has turned out for him. Ken wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well it&#8217;s all hooked up&#8230;. And I did my first lead reflow&#8230; It worked! The default code for unleaded profile worked out of the box!!! Beautiful curve with no change!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->What amazes us more is the setup he has made to make it as a more permanent reflow machine. Ken uses a Black &amp; Decker convection oven with a solid state relay bought from <a title=\"SSR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/SSR-25DA-Temperature-Control-Solid-State\/dp\/B004HZN628\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> together with a heat sink. We love the clean and neat wiring on the whole setup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/KenOvenMount.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-807\" title=\"KenOvenMount\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/KenOvenMount.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/KenOvenMount.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/KenOvenMount-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/KenOvenMount-529x705.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He has even modified the example lead-free sketches to suite leaded solder paste. Here&#8217;s a sample reflow curve for leaded solder paste made by Ken.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/KenLeadedReflowCurve.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-805\" title=\"KenLeadedReflowCurve\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/KenLeadedReflowCurve.png\" width=\"675\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/KenLeadedReflowCurve.png 675w, https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/KenLeadedReflowCurve-600x317.png 600w, https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/KenLeadedReflowCurve-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ken runs an open source robotics company called\u00a0<a title=\"Biomimetix\" href=\"http:\/\/biomimetix.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biomimetix<\/a>\u00a0with some very exciting open source products coming up soon! Thanks Ken!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ProtoDrawing2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-810\" title=\"ProtoDrawing2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ProtoDrawing2.jpg\" width=\"717\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ProtoDrawing2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ProtoDrawing2-600x340.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ProtoDrawing2-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ProtoDrawing2-768x436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ProtoDrawing2-705x400.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our customer Ken McClain from US, mailed us on how the Reflow Oven Controller shield has turned out for him. Ken wrote: Well it&#8217;s all hooked up&#8230;. And I did my first lead reflow&#8230; It worked! The default code for unleaded profile worked out of the box!!! Beautiful curve with no change!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-random","tag-reflow-controller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketscream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}