Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 03 10:50:06 EDT 2019 | rgduval
An 8 zone oven will give you better thermal control over the whole process. It's useful for lead-free soldering, or for boards with varying thermal loads/shadowing, etc. You can make a 5 zone work for lead free, provided the boards don't have signi
Electronics Forum | Sun Jul 21 10:33:53 EDT 2019 | reckless
I use a lead free 3 zone essemtec oven which I love. It's on the smaller side (wish it was even smaller). It works fine in our application. Maximum width is 300mm and only uses 5-6kwh average (25A max). Made in Switzerland. For some reason I don
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 11 08:22:26 EST 2014 | emeto
The longer the oven, the better. You will have much more capabilities in creating the precise profiles the way you want them(with10-12 zone oven). I have worked with ovens from 2 to 12 zones and the difference is huge. In my opinion try to get a 10zo
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 10 16:14:37 EST 2014 | jimpat
The 300 degrees is the temperature as measured at the sensor. The actual air temperature just above your PCB may actually be much less. If the oven is properly calibrated then the 300 should represent air temperature at the board but I have seen ma
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 23 10:31:46 EST 2014 | jimpat
Sounds like your volumes are pretty low. Pick and Place is the bottleneck in the assembly line. Consider an oven that can keep up with the throughput of your P&P. "The best" is determined on individual cases for a specific application and enviro
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 22 18:10:44 EST 2014 | sreejhu
What do you mean by solder in ROHS. Can you please explain me little bit. Is that really important while doing lead free process. Also, please tell me wether a 8 zone (4 bottm and 4 top) reflow oven with 300 degree max.. Is good to do the lead free
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 10 16:58:53 EST 2014 | sreejhu
Hello, yes you are absolutely correct. I agree with your point. Last week,I personally checked out my board on Heller 1088 which is a 8 zone reflow oven (4 on top and 4 on bottom) and the soldering came pretty nice. So comparing with that situation
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 10 13:26:03 EST 2014 | spoiltforchoice
I don't have one, but a lot of ovens of this vintage are on the market because they DO NOT cope well with lead free processes. There is one of these on eBay right now and it even says ROHS is right at the limit of what it can just about manage so thi
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 11 13:49:48 EST 2014 | emeto
If you have a chance ask them to bring in one of your products(take board, stencil and some heavy part on the PCB that will absorb a lot of heat). They should be able to screen(even manually) it for you, hand place the part and send it through the ov
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 11 09:15:06 EST 2014 | sreejhu
Hello Sir, Thanks for your reply. i just got a mail from the DIMA service group and they said the Oven setting is as follows: Max temp settings in each zone (Which is not the temperature on your product, but close to where the air flow comes out of