Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 18 16:03:03 EDT 2003 | mkehoe
Orrrrr, just buy a small reflow oven, 5K to 7K, and eliminate the paste printing by using solid solder deposition. No shorts, no opens, no cleaning, and no voids. www.sipad.com If you decide to print your own paste later you can invest the extra 30
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 25 22:50:05 EDT 2006 | davef
A toaster oven is an improvement over hand soldering.
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 21 09:07:50 EDT 2006 | Timothy
My company is currently using point source soldering of SMT components. We have seen some problems due to improper soldering and are looking to switch to a reflow oven/hotplate assembly. Our PCB's range in size but are no larger than 5"x5" and we as
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 27 11:50:21 EDT 2006 | samir
90% of the battle with thermal profiling is your thermocouple attachment. That is Process Engineering 101. It's just like painting your house. The masking and prep work will make or break the end result. KIC did a DoE on which thermocouple attach
Electronics Forum | Mon May 01 23:23:58 EDT 2006 | grantp
Hi, I off center idea we used when we started. Get a pasta cooker, and put in vapor phase fluid, and then use that. Place the product in the bottom of the inner pot, and then heat on a small hot plate. When the vapor cloud gets high enough and the
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 26 12:38:33 EDT 2006 | TMC
I would suggest you do the following: get a sample / scrap board that you will be reflowing, attach thermocouples at various locations on the board, send the board to APS or whomever. Ask them to run a profile based on your solder pastes manufactur
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 29 09:09:04 EDT 2005 | stalkerb
Hi, Looking to generate some discussion on the merits of using the ERSA Versaflow inline selective soldering machine as a real alternative to wave soldering in sub 100 batch size low volume high mix production PCBA Production. I work for a tier 1 C
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 29 13:01:57 EDT 2005 | stalkerb
PR thankyou for your feedback, your comments are extremely helpful. We have a customer product porfolio of about 900 active products, covering approx 700 different fabs. your comments are absolutely valid with regards to Speed, however in our scena
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 26 12:06:08 EDT 2007 | basem
$100K for this entire line. We are thinking of getting a Chinese made reflow oven that looks pretty good at $25K. Also, we need to deposit solder using a dispenser as stencil printing will be reserved only for higher volume boards. It will not be pra
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 20 17:56:46 EST 2006 | Chris
If you are running FR4 PCBs and not something exotic like Kapton flex circuits, I would go with the Dek 265 any day of the week. You will find that Dek supports the fully automatic printer much better than the semiautomatic printers like the 260, 24
