Re: gEDA-user: Anybody have any experience with cheap chinese reflow ovens?

[yamazakir2 <yamazakir2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Does that company ship to the US? Plus for some reason I have had VERY
bad shipping experience from europe. I live in CA and things always
take at least 3 weeks to get here. One time I ordered a cable from
ebay from the uk and it took 1.5 months to get here.

So one one has any experience with the chinese reflow ovens? Are they
junk or something?

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David Smith wrote:
>
>>> It seems like $320 shipped is pretty cheap for a reflow oven... to the
>>> point where I question the quality/reliability. Getting one of these
>>> would make assembling my boards 2-3x faster,so it's tempting.
>
> We successfully use the pizza oven reflow kit sold by beta-layout:
> (same company as pcb pool)
>        http://www.reflow-kit.com/rkuk/order_products_list.html?wg=1
> The controller is 159 EUR and the oven 59 EUR. The controller goes
> between the plug and the wall. So you can use a cheaper oven from the
> local grocerie if you wish.
>
> Results are fine by default for small boards. For large boards,
> components near the door receive less heat than necessary. This
> could be rectified with aluminum foil on the inside of the window.
>
>
>> There's an article on the SparkFun website where they claim that you're
>> better off buying a domestic hot-plate (!)
>
> We tried the hot plate method, too. Results were mixed and depend
> on timing and various other factors.
>
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