>>I am looking into buying a small reflow oven this summer
>
>Why don't you DIY?
>
>It will "have the best price possible". You will possibily
>learn many things in the process and will have a lot of fun.
>
>I'm making mine with a toaster oven, a PT100 sensor, opamps
>and of course the magical PIC. Basicly it's a ohmeter (for
>the PT100 sensor) that controls the heater in a feedback
>loop to follow the temperature profile ~precisely and actively.
>
>I didn't finish it yet (did I start it?) otherwise I would share
>it. If you can wait a couple of months I'll gladly share my design.

I am at about the same point. Bought a toaster oven off eBay for GBP1.00,
but haven't fired it up to see what the temp profile will be uncontrolled.

I am looking at the possibility of using thermocouples instead of PT100's,
but also have PT1000 sensors in mind as well.

One of these days I'll get active on it.

You might want to look at the E-Z_Bake email group on Yahoo groups which was
set up to discuss such projects. Not very active, but the archives should
give you a number of pointers.

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