Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 17 13:25:36 EDT 2002 | clarkk
Perhaps a rework fountain such as an Air-Vac might work with a carefully selected shroud.
Electronics Forum | Wed May 09 08:25:53 EDT 2012 | almoore
I don't have a placement machine available that will do the job reliably. An Air Vac DRS25 would work well if I had one but I can't afford it. A simple change to the part and cell would allow anyone to rework these parts without expensive equipment
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 28 08:27:55 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| if anyone has used or has one of these bga rework stations please give me your opinion on them. I am planning on using the sytem for not only rework but also low volume prototype production for hand built 1 or 2 qty pcb's, so ease of use is impor
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 09 19:08:37 EDT 2002 | russ
AJ, I have bought and used 2 DRS24's in the past. It is a good machine. (I don't think that I will bring up the fact that a certain package that I had kept shorting so I sent them a couple to help with the profile and all of them came back shorted
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 30 05:55:52 EST 2004 | Repair Process Tech
When we need to apply paste during BGA rework we normally order a stencil from our stencil vendor. In most cases all we need to do is tell them the assembly and location plus quantity and they do the rest for us. Usually we'll have several types of a
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 28 16:55:45 EDT 2007 | hegemon
Hey Brian, Did you use the auto profile feature on your DRS25 machine to arrive at your profile? Our DRS25 has been doing quite well at larger BGA components. Most critical is a good preheat until the PCB reaches at least 140c, followed by a 2degC
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 25 12:16:03 EST 2002 | Dragonslayr
I have conducted 2 BGA rework studies over the last 3 years or so. Each time I came to Air-Vac as the prefered machine. I looked at all the models mentioned in the other posts here plus a few more. As a final step in the study I took the actual oper
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 25 12:57:29 EST 2002 | caldon
Maxtim- I have used APE's Sniper, airvac, Mecal's 3500, PDR, Pace, and MArtin's rework stations. APE Sniper does the Job but to much automation and not user friendly software. PDR is to much IR and no convection. Metcal's work good now with the ne
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 17 13:37:25 EDT 2002 | ksfacinelli
We have an Air-Vac in-house I will take a look at but we need to get down about 3/4" with about 1/2 inch clearance.
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 25 13:00:12 EST 2002 | steve
Ersa is the choice for lower end repair and rework systems. Airvac is the choice for higher end systems. Stay away from low end hot air units. They typically do not present an even flow of heat across the component. The Ersa requires no nozzles, whic
