Make an IR Soldering Iron

Quite nice ?

Could perhaps be made a little more directional by adding a IR shaping fron t end (fancy name for a tube)

Cheers

Klaus

Thanks. That would be a useful option.

On a sunny day (Wed, 24 Jul 2019 10:19:41 GMT) it happened Steve Wilson wrote in :

Very nice!

Thanks Steve, an interesting low-cost tool to play with. Add an IR probe and an adjustable 12VDC supply and I'll bet you could make it even more useful. And add Klaus's suggested tube/hood.

It is a bit hot right now, the single-sided PCB looks a bit cooked after the parts were removed.

The Amazon rating for your rhinestone ones is not so good, one might be better off going to Canadian Tire or some other brick & mortar car parts/wrecker store to get something reliable...or digging in your junk drawer.

Thanks for posting it!

John :-#)#

..or if you don't smoke, just get the one from your car.

Or inexpensive. Heat lamps (just 300W incandescents, really, with a PAR reflector) can do the job at close range (circa 4 inch spot size) and I've successfully used those (with a mica window, so the spatter wouldn't hit the incandescent envelope).

Regulated power is the wrong way to use this (cigarette-lighter-element) kind of gizmo, really; a variac and transformer for stepdown/isolation should be on every workbench anyhow, so just use those...