Abstract: In a temperature control system for controlling a heating member or means of a solder handling device, a plurality of solder handling devices such as soldering iron, a heater tweezer, a solder sucker and a hot air blower are selectively coupled with a temperature controller which in turn identify the solder handling device connected thereto and controls temperature of the heater of the connected device with temperature control characteristic suitable for the device. Each solder handling device may have a resistor of which resistance value represents the type of the device so that the temperature controller identify the device by the resistance value.