The SMT reflow oven controller is based on H8/3687 microcontroller which can be used to transform a conventional infrared toaster oven into an effective reflow oven that performs thermal control. The ...

[Ed] owns a 3-zone reflow oven (which he coincidently uses to manufacture reflow oven controllers), but its performance has gotten worse and worse over time. The speed of the conveyer belt became so ...

With a lot of people who are suddenly too cool for through hole and of course the a few generations of components that are only available in SMD packages, it’s no surprise the humble toaster oven has ...

Part 4 focuses on testing for a reflow oven and build of a mixed SMT/through-hole board. This column will address reflow-oven temperature testing. It uses the lab equipment to build the circuit board ...

One high-volume OEM proves that even simple feedback from an AOI system can reduce end-of-line defects by an order of magnitude. Until recently, the use of pre-reflow optical inspection usually was ...