Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 16 13:35:20 EDT 2015 | swiese242
This has been a challenge for most manufacturers. It depends on board thickness, lead or lead free paste/parts. We have a slim-kic to get the profiles correct in our 14 zone oven. I believe it may be the recently posted suggestion of too much heat in
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 25 23:01:04 EDT 2008 | chip_flip
What paste are using? You should referance the manufactures time and temperature specification. Running lead-free in a 5 zone oven can be done with out a problem but it is not production friendly. If you are concerned with through put I would look fo
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 28 14:30:22 EDT 2008 | grics
Take a look at this. Remember, these are only guidlines and can not replace any paste specs. As Real Chunks said, a profiler will be of HUGE help. We use this to determine what our top side temps are and to see if we have any problems with heat sen
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 28 11:31:42 EDT 2008 | blnorman
Ideal situation is get a technical rep from the solder paste supplier. They know their paste better, and should be able to work out a profile based on their paste and your oven. Again, a technical rep, not the sales guy.
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 28 13:21:50 EDT 2008 | realchunks
Do you have a Slim-Kic? You can run a profile and then do predictions from there. Very useful tool.
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 28 14:01:05 EDT 2008 | pcbbuilders
thanks, looks like an interesting product. any idea of the cost? they don't list it on their site. not sure if i can afford it yet.
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 29 10:46:17 EDT 2008 | realchunks
Oh, well if you can profile, model your profile to the profile supplied by the paste manufacturer. Anything outside of their recommended profile is all experimantal.
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 29 10:53:58 EDT 2008 | pcbbuilders
Some profiles can be difficult to get exactly, so I was wondering what effect a slight deviation might have.
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 29 14:20:03 EDT 2008 | realchunks
Slight variations should have little impact on your product under normal conditions. All depends on your board.
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 02 08:06:11 EDT 2008 | pcbbuilders
Is there a limit to the time that most components can stay at temperatures around 130-200 deg c? if i slow the time, the first 4 zones will be at this temp for about 5 minutes in no lead process. i am concerned that some chips wont be rated at this t
