Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 10 13:37:03 EDT 2019 | slthomas
How wide is this board? I ask because if it's not terribly wide, you might just be better off attacking the problem with the profile rather than attacking the board conveyor design.
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 10 12:59:04 EDT 2019 | don_julio
Thank you. Maybe I'll just order some oversized thick boards from the board house with no traces. There has to be a lower cost way than paying that kind of money they are asking for those products.
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 13 12:44:39 EDT 2019 | dwl
A couple of caveats; The FR4 will degrade with successive reflows and will eventually need to be replaced. Not a big deal for low volume, but something to be aware of. The bigger concern is that a sheet of .125" large enough to position your assembl
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 10 10:12:42 EDT 2019 | assuredtech
What is the year, make and model of your oven? Are you running it with Upstream and Downstream (pre-reflow, post-reflow) conveyors? Is the qty of the product low, medium or high? What is the max process width of the oven? what is the max board with o
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 10 10:23:47 EDT 2019 | don_julio
We started getting better reflow after rotating the pcb to locate the greater mass closer to the center of the oven. However we still leave space between panels on the conveyor to achieve a better reflow. This costs us production time. I'm simply lo
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 11 11:22:19 EDT 2019 | sumote
If the board is just not reaching the temps you need, you could place them in an oven to "preheat" them. When I was building a rather thick board with a copper core I had to do this. Since we were only doing small runs it was feasible, I don't know y
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 12 14:00:25 EDT 2019 | proceng1
We just use scrap PCBs for Oven carriers. You could probably contact your board house and as for just sheets of FR4 to use. I've also used a binder clip at each corner to lift a board off of the mesh belt in a pinch.
Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 09 21:10:11 EDT 2019 | don_julio
In our reflow oven it has pins which move at the predetermined speed to move the pcb through the various zones in the oven. The forward row of pins is fixed along the front of the oven. The rear set of pins is adjustable per the width of the pcb. We
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 13 12:50:00 EDT 2019 | don_julio
> A couple of caveats; The FR4 will degrade with > successive reflows and will eventually need to be > replaced. Not a big deal for low volume, but > something to be aware of. The bigger concern is > that a sheet of .125" lar
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 10 13:47:23 EDT 2019 | don_julio
First thing we did was visit the profile and we have it adjusted as far as we're willing to take it. I'm just going to make a carrier design in cad and have the board house produce some in their thickest substrate to see how it works out. Thanks.
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