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Tips When Moving a Reflow Oven
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TranscriptPhil Welcome to Board Talk with Phil Zarrow and Jim Hall, the Assembly Brothers, who by day go as ITM Consulting. Let's see, what kind of subject do we have to warm up to today Jim? Jim One near and dear to my heart, reflow. This comes from Q.N. After moving a reflow oven to a different site, what steps do you need to perform on the machine and the heat exhaust in order for the machine to be certified? Phil Certified? Is there an official reflow oven certification? Oh yeah, that's right. That's us. Jim Right, there is no known certification standard for ovens. But certainly you do want to make sure that your oven is performing in the same manner in terms of accuracy and repeatability that it did at the former site. The most important thing that's more likely to give you problems is the conveyor system. This is what carries the board. You only have your little edge conveyors. Getting the machine leveled, getting them lined up, vibration free, parallel and so forth so that you don't drop boards or jam boards in your oven, is probably the most important step. That being said, you want to get the same thermal performance. You want to get the same repeatable profiles on your board. You are very astute to ask about exhaust because proper exhausting can affect the performance of an oven. So you want to make sure that the exhaust is set up with whatever measurements you use to set it up initially. Once it's set up you want to take some calibration vehicle that you have history on, ideally both a profile and repeatability of that profile, and run it again. And run multiple profiles to make sure that you're getting accuracy, getting the same peak temperatures, the same time above liquidus, slopes and so forth, and that profile is repeatable over multiple profiles so that you can get the same performance and get the same quality boards that you were getting. Phil You might also check with the oven manufacturer and see if they have any other recommendations in addition to maintenance. Generally they probably have some experience and know where the vulnerable spots are. But anyway, that's enough for our fragile egos. Be careful with that reflow oven. And when you're using it, whatever you do - Jim Don't solder like my brother. Phil Yeah, and don't solder like my brother. |
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