Electronics Forum | Fri May 11 16:29:51 EDT 2007 | anthony
Novastar is JUNK, that is why you cannot get repeatable results. Check the conveyor rails, you will find they are warped. Novastar uses cheap, non-machined rails. Straight from china or india. Their stuff is garbage. Best to swallow the loss and star
Electronics Forum | Sat May 05 18:18:22 EDT 2007 | colormaker
I am using a Novastar 12S solder wave with Kester water soluable fux 22-2425. I have used this for years without problems on an old Hollis machine. Just started using the Novastar and after fine tuning I get itermitten bridging on the front of the P
Electronics Forum | Mon May 07 22:00:11 EDT 2007 | seb1970
what type of preheater does the novastar use and what temp. is it set on? I am also use to a hollis wave solder machine. Old and crude but works great.
Electronics Forum | Mon May 07 22:28:17 EDT 2007 | colormaker
radiant heat. 137c The hollis was a great machine. The one I had the prehead wass on or off there was no setting. The pot temperature guage was brocken so I had to guess and manually turn the heater on and off. The whole machine was covered with 1 i
Electronics Forum | Mon May 07 12:40:08 EDT 2007 | patrickbruneel
Jerry, At the end of the article in the link you will see how the wave needs to look like. http://www.interfluxusa.com/Technical/No-Residue_implementation.htm This wave design has been adopted by most machine manufacturers and I would be surprised
Electronics Forum | Mon May 07 10:27:40 EDT 2007 | colormaker
The spray bottle puts more flux on the board but I am not sure how to measure ? I just got the Novastar 12S and its very difficult to set up. When I fix one problem another one show up. When I do get good results I dont make changes and then after a
Electronics Forum | Wed May 16 14:48:07 EDT 2007 | jdumont
We got a good deal on ours for around $100K new with not many options. For what its worth I visited Novastar's factory in Pa and was not happy with what I saw there. There were almost no static precautions taken, boards were stacked in cardboard boxe
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 16 13:12:43 EDT 2010 | gregcr
Hi All, We have been running a Novastar spartan 8S wave solder machine for a number of years. We actually do very little wave soldering and this machine has served us well. I have always been of the opinion that with the small pot and simple fluxe
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 22 23:35:01 EST 2012 | comatose
This is a fair point. I've been more or less thinking that a wave machine is like a reflow oven - a box with heaters that's easy to maintain in house. Are they more troublesome than that? I prefer big-boy toys. Manncorp, novastar and the like aren'
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
