Electronics Forum | Mon May 16 18:03:30 EDT 2005 | davef
Key Issue: Will this machine solder your boards? You never know until you solder one. Any other avenues of analysis involve substantial risk. Flux Selection * High or low solids * VOC or VOC-free Solder Alloy * If using lead-free, avoid stainles
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 25 08:33:59 EDT 2008 | lococost
That's just dross. If you have nitrogen blowing over the wave, you could reduce its flow as it tends to blow the dust everywhere if it is set too high. (on the other hand it might reduce solder quality)
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 06 18:07:33 EST 2023 | ccouture
We recently installed a new solder wave machine, The spray fluxer has a pressurized tank and because we use an alcohol based flux, the spray fluxer system must be fed with nitrogen. Anyone has infos on what installation is prefered to supply this mac
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 12 20:13:39 EST 2003 | cmiller
Does anyone have any experience with setting up a nitrogen supply system to a wave solder machine that is equiped for it? Does the nitrogen need to be room temp or higher? Does it make a big difference with bridging or solder quality? We bought a use
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 21 10:31:48 EST 2003 | adlsmt
We dont have the debridging knife. I had one on an old Hollis machine I had once. It was totally worthless. I am setting up the nitrogen today. I will let you know how its goes. We are using a water based no-clean. The nitrogen will probably make a
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 07 21:28:30 EST 2023 | stephendo
What purity? To get 99.999% pure you will need dewers of liquid nitrogen or a two stage system. (and a dewer will last about a month and a half even if you don't use it as it outgasses.) But you can get reasonable purity with a wall mounted single s
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 07 18:18:11 EST 2023 | proceng1
The onsite generator drops approx. 30psi from the input. We feed ours 110psi and end up around 80psi in the tank, which we regulate to 65psi for the machines.
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 07 18:51:47 EST 2023 | ccouture
Sounds right, our actual pressure in the system is 120psi, the regulated to 100 in the machines.
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 07 17:00:39 EST 2023 | proceng1
Prior to the Generators, we bought tanks of N2. As long as you have an air compressor that can supply the generator, it's pretty much maintenance free. You change filters every year. In almost 15 years, other than changing filters, we've had to r
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 19 19:46:29 EST 2003 | adlsmt
I estimate the costs about the same but we build in batches so the wave only runs a few hours a day. We do complex boards so I think its worth it plus you have to keep the machine awhile to recoup the investment in the new nozzles. If the market gets
