> I do want to run a profile, but they won't give > up the machine long enough for me to run one. > The boards that we are running through the wave > are large boards, with large caps, and large > transformers on it. We're building highend power > amps that are realitivly heavy and > bulky. > > There are a total of 4 preheaters on > this machine. The one that is out is the second > bottom one next to the wave. The top pre-heater > are "heavy duty" and have a convention fan, this > was a modification to the machine from the vendor > because of the denisty of our products. > > I want > to run a profile, but they won't give me the > machine long enough to run it. we have the > pre-heater that needs replacement and at this > point by the time it would take me to run the > profile we could just have the actual problem > fixed. > > My boss said "Well, it looks good to > me". But, what are the things we're not going to > see or that will haunt us later? > > Maybe I am > being just a little more concerned that I need to > be. In Reflow, if we loose one of twenty heaters > the machine is down.
> I do want to run a profile, but they won't give > up the machine long enough for me to run one. > The boards that we are running through the wave > are large boards, with large caps, and large > transformers on it. We're building highend power > amps that are realitivly heavy and > bulky. > > There are a total of 4 preheaters on > this machine. The one that is out is the second > bottom one next to the wave. The top pre-heater > are "heavy duty" and have a convention fan, this > was a modification to the machine from the vendor > because of the denisty of our products. > > I want > to run a profile, but they won't give me the > machine long enough to run it. we have the > pre-heater that needs replacement and at this > point by the time it would take me to run the > profile we could just have the actual problem > fixed. > > My boss said "Well, it looks good to > me". But, what are the things we're not going to > see or that will haunt us later? > > Maybe I am > being just a little more concerned that I need to > be. In Reflow, if we loose one of twenty heaters > the machine is down.
Well when in prevent mode at the wave like this, your best option is to slow the conveyor speed down a bit. Maybe 15 to 20 percent. This should work and you should be OK.
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