The construction of the oven makes no shaky impression and the drawer can easily be moved. The whole oven fits easily onto the workbench. “Good build quality, but at the same time light weight and a small footprint allows the T962 to be easily bench positioned transported or stored.” I have put the oven on a separate underlay so that I do not have to worry about the heat. The oven comes with a circulation system that controls a fan on the back of the oven and pipes fresh air from the outside through the oven and out of the bottom of the oven. The inside temperature is measured with two thermocouples that are mounted on the ceiling of the oven. Inside the oven there are four infrared elements. The oven came with an european and an international plug. “Uses up to 1500 Watts of energy efficient Infrared heating and air circulation to re-flow solder.” I already got satisfactory soldering results with one of the other pre-defined profiles so that I did not use the customization function of the oven extensively. The user interface is quite self explanatory: For every few seconds of the profile you have to set the target temperature of the profile. Out of curiosity I tested the customization process once. Two of the profiles can be customized to your own needs. There are eight pre-defined temperature profiles. “Parameters of eight soldering cycles are pre-defined and the entire soldering process can be completed automatically from Preheat, Soak, and Reflow through to Cool Down.” However, there are reports that the heat during a soldering process is not evenly distributed so that you cannot use the whole area reliably. The soldering area is as large as advertised by the manufacturer. “Effective soldering area: 300×320mm this increases the usage range of this machine drastically and makes it an economical investment.” The reflow oven is advertised with a bunch of features that are listed and commented in the following: You can get this oven at Ebay for prices around 550 USD plus shipping. The T-962A is manufactured by Puhuit and comes with these specifications: If you would like to start with reflow soldering in a slightly more advanced way, you might be interested in the T-962A. There are online instructions, tutorials, or even whole DIY kits ready to be ordered. For those of you who just want to do some reflow soldering for home tinkering or small scale series production an often found solution is to build your own reflow-soldering oven out of a toaster. IntroductionĬommercial reflow ovens usually cost in the range of thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. This is review of the reflow oven T-962A. In that situation, you can think about getting a reflow oven for soldering SMDs. But there are really tiny SMD parts as well as packages that cannot be soldered by hand. Of course, soldering some of these tiny parts by hand is possible. If you are tinkering, doing electronics, and/or soldering you might already have had contact with surface-mounted devices or, in short, “SMDs”.
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