What is an Intern to Do?
The Indium Corporation has many summer interns this year. The technical support group was fortunate enough to hire Sarah Bjornland (pictured). She is ...
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Preheating Part VII - Lamp-Type Infrared and Ceramic Plate
Lamp style preheaters have the fastest response time of any of the previous preheaters mentioned in other posts. The lamp filament is practicall...
Preheaters Part VI - Quartz Tube
As a follow up to my post on quartz plate preheaters for wave soldering, this post is dedicated to the very similar quartz tube preheater. If you...
Changing the Composition of Your Tin-Lead Solder Pot
In today’s electronics manufacturing industry, many companies are using lead-free solder alloys. However, there are a few sectors in the industr...
Preheating Part V - Quartz Plate
We continue our discussion of solder reflow methods. As the name suggests, quartz plate preheaters have thick quartz plates in which the heating eleme...
Preheating Part IV - Hot Air
My last post talked about the pros and cons of CalRod® style preheaters. This post will be devoted to hot air style preheaters. It makes sense t...
Jumping into JMP- ANOVA Analysis
My most recent blog topics have had to do with Wave Soldering Machine Components, but statistics is also something that interests me. Have y...
Preheating Part III - Calrod®: Wave Soldering
My last post was about the benefits and disadvantages of using a platen or hot plate preheater in wave soldering. There are many different kinds of pr...
Preheating Part II - Hot Plate or Platen
The previous post introduced all of the different type of preheaters. The Hot Plate or Platen preheater will be the first type I will discuss. If you ...
Preheating Part I - Types of Preheaters
I mentioned, in my last post, that preheating is needed to decrease wave soldering cost. With trying to decrease the cost of the wave soldering proces...
Preheating - An Introduction: Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis) Post #9
Many of my posts have been discussing the different types of wave soldering fluxers: th...
Fluxers Part IV - Brush: Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis) Post #8
My last two posts (1) (2) have been about the different facets of spray fluxing and the systems......