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    Reflow station

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by ADOR, Jun 21, 2011.

  1. ADOR

    ADOR Evil Mad Scientist

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    I am looking at getting a reflow station to add to my tool pile. Have any of you used one? I want to use it for basic repairs (motherboards, xbox, etc) and thinking of getting a old cf-28 motherboard and swapping the cpu to something bigger. Just something else to play with. I have looked at some cheaper ones they are between 50 to 100 USD but have run across this and wanted to know if it would be any better.

    T862 IRDA Infrared BGA SMD Soldering Rework Station - eBay (item 300472545128 end time Jun-22-11 00:14:39 PDT)

    It problay won't be from this guy, but the same unit.

    I have had luck before doing the oven trick on some video cards but wanted to step up to something better.
     
    ADOR, Jun 21, 2011
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  2. xboxhaxorz

    xboxhaxorz Notebook Evangelist

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    Thats too small for BGA chips. Its fine for small smd chips and cell phone chips. You will spend around $2k for a full station. It will probably be 200v as well.
     
    xboxhaxorz, Jun 21, 2011
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