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...
Wave Solder
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...
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...
Lead Free 2015
Folks, It is hard to believe that in July we will celebrate the 9th anniversary of the advent of RoHS. So the timing seemed right when I was recently ...
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 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......
Fluxers Part III B - Spray Fluxer Venting: Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis) Post #7
No matter how accurate the spray fluxer is there will at least be some flux that is not deposited on the board that needs to be removed from the syste...
Wave Soldering is Here to Stay
Patty was just getting ready to leave her office for a bi-weekly luncheon with the Professor, Pete, and Rob. They had regular meetings like this...
Fluxers Part III A - The Total Loss System and Spray Fluxing: Wave Soldering (A Segmented Synopsis) Post #6
The total loss system is a method of applying spray flux that utilizes the minimal amount of material to properly create a satisfactory solder joint. ...