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RadioShack Heat Gun 120V 60Hz 300W with reflector Teardown

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RadioShack Heat Gun 120V 60Hz 300W with reflector Teardown, The guts: crwdns2935265:00crwdnd2935265:01crwdnd2935265:03crwdne2935265:0 RadioShack Heat Gun 120V 60Hz 300W with reflector Teardown, The guts: crwdns2935265:00crwdnd2935265:02crwdnd2935265:03crwdne2935265:0 RadioShack Heat Gun 120V 60Hz 300W with reflector Teardown, The guts: crwdns2935265:00crwdnd2935265:03crwdnd2935265:03crwdne2935265:0
The guts
  • The primary assembly has a metal tube which directed the hot air out of the nozzle. The tube enclosed a heating element spiraled around a framework insulated by a heat resistant paper. The heating element is essentially a resistor wound around a synthetic thread that resisted burning.

  • The other element of the assembly was a brushless DC motor. The input AC voltage is put through a 4-diode full bridge rectifier with a smoothing capacitor before the DC voltage is fed into the motor and the resistor. The DC motor is attached to a plastic fan which drives the air through vent holesand down the metal tube across the heating elements

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