Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 24 23:15:20 EDT 2005 | jrlg1120
Hi Jerome, You may also want to consider APR-5000 from Metcal. Capability and price is very reasonable. Randy
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 29 14:10:50 EDT 2005 | ppwlee
Has anyone done a comparison between the newer Metcal APR-5000 BGA rework and Airvac DRS24? Were there significant advantages of Airvac over the Metcal that justify the cost delta? Rgds, Pete
Electronics Forum | Fri May 18 12:03:35 EDT 2007 | ed_faranda
I've been looking into BGA rework stations. I have narrowed it down to two: Summit 750 by VJ Electronix APR-5000-XLS by OK International They both have easy to use profiling and have a good robustness as far as maintaining your profile.
Electronics Forum | Fri May 18 14:49:51 EDT 2007 | jimpat
Our company will begin evaluating BGA machines pretty soon. It takes too much time to send the boards back to our conract house for rework. Can you provide some numbers as to how much the Summit 750 and APR5000XLS cost?
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 22 10:21:15 EDT 2022 | micropak
I have a Metcal APR5000, not sure if it's software is configurable with your machine or not.
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 06 08:36:34 EST 2013 | leigh
We have used a OK International APR-5000-XLS for the past 5 years, and have never had any issues with it. It works great on all types of BGA's and PCB's. There is sufficient heating topside and bottom, you can hook up thermocouples and fine tune yo
Electronics Forum | Mon May 06 08:25:35 EDT 2002 | ianchan
check http://www.metcal.com inquiry the metcal team on the APR5000. no package is too much fuss nor mess with this system that rocks the house, and comes it with a price tag affordable to most companies. the only -ve limitation this system may ha
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 22 12:34:14 EST 2002 | timreisenleiter
I am in the process of sourcing and ordering a BGA rework station. I only have exprerience with the OK-Industries (Now Metcal) BGA-3500 BGA rework system. Any experience/input on other comparable systems would be much appreciated (Pace TF3000, Air-
Electronics Forum | Tue May 23 14:08:56 EDT 2006 | bman
We've been placing BGAs for a while now, and I personally had to x-ray every one of them. The only time we had a placement problem was when a few parts were placed by machine in the wrong orientation. The operators fixed it by hand before it went t
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 03 20:19:05 EST 2006 | Paul wood
THE IS A REASON ITS FOR SALE CHEAP THE DRS 24 IS BEING SOLD BECAUSE ITS NOT SO GOOD FOR LEAD FREE BGA REWORK IT CANNOT RAMP UP THE PCB AND PARTS AT THE SAME RATE BECUASE OF THE HOT PLATE.ITS A OLD MODAL AND LOTS FOR SALE AT $10K AS NO ONE WANTS THEM
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