Yes, that's the one. Works great; just be sure to gently break it in by slowly increasing the temperature to burn-off the manufacturing residue, and ALWAYS let it cool-down (fan will shut off automatically) before you power-down. It came with 3 nozzles, and I use the small one. It's permanently stuck on the tool, so dont expect to be changing nozzles around. It heats-up in less than 10 seconds, and at 350C it does a great job.
On my current project I had an intermittent connection on a 144-pin CPLD that I hand-soldered that took months to track down (I thought it was a software bug, or metastability in the CPLD logic). After reflowing the CPLD, no more intermittent problems. On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 12:28:15 PM UTC-8 Jon D. wrote: > Is it the CO-Z 858D Rework Station ?? > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 11:35 AM gregebert <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Reviving this thread... >> >> I've spent some of the holiday season using hot-air soldering for >> surface-mount devices, and the results are far superior to hand-soldering. >> With good solder paste (I'm using ChipQuick 63/37; there are several other >> brands) and placing small dabs on solder pads with the included syringe. >> You dont need to use a stencil; you probably will want one if you are doing >> several builds of the same board AND you are going to mount all components >> at the same time. >> >> If the PCB has good solder-masking, the solder paste will flow from the >> masked area towards the pad when heated, so shorts are unlikely to occur >> unless you used way too much paste. I've also seen some self-centering of >> SMT parts while the solder is molten, so you dont need to hold the part >> in-place while soldering as long as the airflow velocity from your hot-air >> machine is low enough. >> >> BTW, I'm using a cheap (40 USD on Amazon) reflow device that holds >> temperature quite well; adjustable airflow is a MUST-have feature. >> >> If you are fearful of doing SMT work because it looks too small, I >> suggest you give it a try. Find a PCB from a discarded device and test it >> out yourself. >> >> Thru-hole parts should still be soldered with a traditional hand iron. >> >> On Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 1:03:48 PM UTC-7 Bill Notfaded wrote: >> >>> Metcal 100% I'll never go back again. We use them at work to solder for >>> space applications under scopes... Well I don't but they do in the >>> factories. Since they turned me on and I bought a 5k series I'm totally >>> sold. It's the bomb period! >>> >>> Bill >>> >> -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "neonixie-l" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/2587ced5-a9c2-49c8-9b48-6ac2ecc9eeaan%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/2587ced5-a9c2-49c8-9b48-6ac2ecc9eeaan%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/e4a05995-0de1-430b-af6d-1669c081ff06n%40googlegroups.com.
