Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 07 09:25:22 EDT 2012 | donkudner
We are planning to purchase two new reflow ovens. I would like to take an unofficial reliability survey. Could you list your reflow oven model / age (yrs) / number of unplanned maintenance events in the last year? Example: BTU VIP98/2001/8
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 27 10:55:47 EST 2006 | SWAG
I don't know much about BTU but we had a very similar problem with a Conceptronics and it turned out to be one of the 120V power supplies. Our machine had two of them (the same as you would find in any PC). Easy to test them although they can be fl
Electronics Forum | Wed May 24 08:02:09 EDT 2006 | geb
Hi, Can anyone recommend a leadfree recipe for a BTU VIP98 i.e. which temperatures for which zones & belt speed? I appreciate that there will be a difference from one oven to another, along with different board sizes, but would like a good starting
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 22 12:04:31 EST 2005 | John S
Thanks for the advice. In this scenario we are designing our own product. Currently we are building at a prototype level with no appreciable wait between reflow passes. The part in question is a 64 pin QFP. We use a BTU VIP 98 with edge conveyor.
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 07 10:39:36 EDT 2005 | geb
I have a BTU International VIP98 reflow oven, running WINCON Version 2.00C on Windows 98. The light tower only lights green when the oven reaches temperature, and the other colours never light up. Do you know how to set the other colour lights to tu
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 25 12:17:57 EST 2006 | KEN
first, does the recipe have the heat and conveyor boxes checked? If no then it does nothing. second, have you pressed the round green switch? third, are there any alarms in the alarm box? Do you have a controller link fail? Verify the cable is p
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 30 00:02:10 EST 2006 | Mats
Hi, A couple of another things is to check: * The cooling water supply (assuming that your oven has this feature). * The fans (Just open the hood and check if every fan, up & down is running). * Open the back panels: and you should see some "black"
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 04 04:49:51 EST 2007 | geb
Thanks, Chunks. Your first post was correct, it turned out to be the battery. That is that problem solved. Unfortunately I have now got an error message saying Flux Management Failure. Is this just a coincidence? It sounds like something to do with t
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 13 15:47:44 EDT 2010 | dox
Somebody pressed the system set button and now the machine has an e-stop,lid open, and extraction error. checked the control relays and all is OK except one is not switching on. The cable comes from the FCU unit so suspect some config or settings are
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 15 17:14:05 EDT 2010 | jwentz
Seems we had similar issue years ago with our VIP 70. There are a series of 2pin axial fuses on the panel with the SS relays and contactors (I don't think it was over the FCU). Check each fuse with a meter; replaced ours and the e-stop cleared and th
