If you do a lot of SMD soldering, a reflow oven is the fastest and most efficient way to get all those tiny components attached to your PCB. [Frank Zhao] saw the reflow ovens we featured here over the ...

Reflow hotplates are a wonderful tool for PCB assembly if you can keep your designs single-sided. The 946C hotplate in particular has been on hackers’ radar for a while – a 200x200mm working surface ...

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Reflow Medical, Inc., a California-based medical device company, introduces the Reflow™ Spex™ LP (Low Profile) 0.014 and 0.018-inch reinforced support catheters.

This paper will address the optimization of Pb Free soldering conditions, with a focus on differences between Sn/ Pb and Pb Free soldering. This allows assemblers to build on their extensive ...

Reflow Soldering Guidelines for Lead-Free Packages Application Note 353 July 2004, ver. 1.0 Introduction The recent directives and legislations by nations around the world have mandated elimination of ...

One high-volume OEM proves that even simple feedback from an AOI system can reduce end-of-line defects by an order of magnitude. Until recently, the use of pre-reflow optical inspection usually was ...