Reflow Oven Purchase

Our reflow oven is pretty terrible.

Produces inconsistent quality soldering jobs and causes more time in rework - we should get a better oven to improve the process. Maybe we should connect with other SDC EE Leads and make a joint proposal to the SDC.

Here are some options I’ve found from a quick search:

EstTechnical

https://www.estechnical.co.uk/ - makes a controller upgrade for the T962 series of ovens for implement better features. At a minimum we should look in to this - note that the oven we have is a QS-5100 so this may not be directly compatible.

Eurocircuits

https://be.eurocircuits.com/shop/offtheshelf/product.aspx?ad=19896&ano=ec-reflow-mate v4&an=ec-reflow-mate-v4&s=ec-prototype-equipment

Novastar

https://www.ddmnovastar.com/reflow-ovens/low-volume/gf-12ht-benchtop-reflow-oven

Neoden USA

https://neodenusa.com/smt-reflow-ovens/neoden-in6

Pegasus Aeronautics has one and it was amazing to work with.