Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 03 15:18:27 EDT 2008 | davef
Good ol' general purpose, day-in, day-out ~$1k hot air rework stations are: * Pace ThermoFlo ST 300 Low Cost Hot Air Reflow System [ST 325 is digital] * Hakko FR-803B SMD Rework Station [FR-802 is digital]
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 10 11:36:44 EST 2010 | reic1
We just recently purchased a Dynapace 48" conveyor with digital display. Am in need of operation and maintenance manuals. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 15 18:14:59 EDT 2011 | hegemon
Finetech wopuld be a great machine for this application due to the small component size. Great optics for the alignment. I have no affiliation with Finetech. 'Hege
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 03 14:45:16 EST 2015 | ttheis
Thanks. Our older oven does have a basic PC interface but no SMEMA. Maybe I can write a short program for the oven's PC to pace the boards into the oven. I could interact with the conveyor's SMEMA interface via low-cost Arduino or something similar.
Electronics Forum | Sun Nov 15 18:52:15 EST 2015 | ttheis
I presume start by having it just pass into oven as soon as it is given a board from the placement machine. If I find I need to pace the boards into the oven it seems a basic PLC would be needed? Thanks for the help.
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 02 07:12:38 EDT 2019 | jchris
I worked with a PACE TF1800 for about a month on a project last year and it performed flawlessly for BGA and QFN installations and removals. It can handle boards up to 12"x12". Really easy to use with excellent profiling software that walks you throu
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 02 10:02:39 EDT 2019 | lapskrfc
Thanks a lot for your reply and the useful information you provided. By any chance, have you heard anything about the Finetech CorePlus?
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 02 11:11:15 EDT 2019 | pace_worldwide
We can set up an on-site demonstration of the TF 1800 if you would like. Are you in the US?
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 18 09:37:24 EST 2019 | davef
People still cut holes in the roof for process venting? Where do you live? Montana? Three companies that support SMTnet want you to consider their fume extraction equipment: * Metcal * ShenZhen J-wide Electronics Equipment Co.,Ltd * PACE Worl
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 24 23:18:00 EDT 1999 | Scott McKee
| We are going to smt ic's on the component side of our pcb's. | The problem is we are going to have to do this by hand. | We have a hot air station and vac pencil, but How reliable is this process. | We've tried it on proto's and had some shorting p
