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Repair: 0.004°C Temperature Controller Arroyo 5235 TECSource

The first 500 to sign up with this link will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/marcoreps16 Affordable 0.1°C Bipolar Peltier Temperature Controller https://bit.ly/36WERz3 Thermal Cameras https://www.welectron.com/Waermebildtechnik Arroyo Temperature controllers https://www.arroyoinstruments.com/ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/marcoreps 1/10 Class PT100 https://de.rs-online.com/web/p/platin-temperatursensoren/2938480/ Thermal camera: https://www.tinkerforge.com/en/shop/thermal-imaging-bricklet.html In this video we take a look at various temperature controllers, most importantly an Arroyo 5235 TECSource. We take it apart, look at a few of its key components, repair it, then calibrate and test its performance. To reach it's most important 0.004°C temperature stability over 1 hour spec, a custom shielding box with a peltier cooler is machined.

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Clark Schaefer

I suspect that your best bet for a machinable foam would be regular polyurethane closed cell foam plus a CNC hot wire cutter. Most of the machining and prototyping foams of which I am aware are designed for carbon fiber composite layup, and so are intentionally quite stiff. Typically, stiffness and coefficient of thermal expansion are more important for these foams than the insulative properties that you appear to be looking for.

Guy Van Loo

You could try EVA foam, it machines nice. and is commonly used for organizing the tools in a tool trolly.

marcoreps

yeah looks good! and cheap too. I only hope it doesn't catch on and wind itself around my milling tool instead of being cut :)

marcoreps

hm yes, PU foam indeed seems to last forever and it was used in the guildline standard cell enclosure (from which I borrowed that mercury thermometer switch) ...

Jeremy

As always, superb content. For the flux cleaning, are you using acetone or isopropanol?

marcoreps

Thank you :) Only the finest indian pale ale this time. I use diluted acetone for older stuff with rosin flux - that would otherwise leave a white residue behind after cleaning with IPA only

Marion Makarewicz

I know I am too busy when so many days pass by before checking in on Patreon to see if you have posted. I need to set the notification for this, but I try to keep them at a minimum. I hope the CNC problem isn't too bad of a mess. Looks nasty though.

Dusan Pesic

awesome that the manufacturer helped you with component level repair