That's all off the top of my head, 30 seconds after reading the post.Į: OK, PIDs are cheap, $28 for the listed one is pretty accurate. The cheapest solution being soldering iron heaters, and some sort of home made nail. I think the most expensive part would be whatever heater/bowl etc you have in there. I'd expect to be able to put together a box like that for $30-40, less if mass produced.
Those stacked boxes look like a PID, connector and maybe some sort of PSU in the box - PIDs are available for ~$20, exchange rates and all withstanding.
What kind of bowls will even work with the flat coils? I almost wonder if a ceramic bowl could be made with a heating element embedded inside, as a single piece. Has anyone seen a better ceramic bowl than the Domeless brand one? The downstem/middle joint on those seems far too skinny considering you are having the weight of the heating element resting on it. Too bad the Dab Pad doesn't have a digital temperature control. If it can get down below $200 for everything I think it will be much more appealing to a lot of people. This comes out to $450 just buying it ready to go, or $300-350 if you make your own. The heating controllers (like pictured above) really don't seem like they should cost more than $100 when built yourself, or $150 for someone to send you a pre-fab.Ĭhecked quite a lot of places and it seems that around $250 is the going rate for a pre-made heating controller, then upwards of $100 for a coil and $100 for a bowl. I feel that a good ceramic bowl and heating element would put me over the edge, if the price for both can go <$100. Decent coils going for ~$100 seems very high as well, though many people have been selling for much less. I feel like ~$75 for a temperature controller is a little high, there must be something lower end that is maybe not as precise but still reliable. Yeah before I throw away $200+ I kind of want to see where ceramic bowls and heating element designs will go.
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