Hi everyone,
I've been practicing on working on SMD component (trying on scrap boards of course). Many resources I came across online calls to set the temperature at 350 degree celsius and the air at half. I am able to remove components on some of the boards sometimes set at those values and they are mostly on older boards, but like I said mostly its a hit and a miss. I do experiment with slightly higher temperature and different air settings. I never go above 380 degree celsius though.
Then I came across a youtube instructional video which suggest to use the temperature at 400 degree celsius. Could that be right? Would that be an ok temperature to set at especially if I'm planning to reuse the removed components? Setting my station at that temperature definitely gets the components removed very easily.
I am having particular bad luck removing DPAK packages specially the body connection. I haven't tried using 400 degree celsius on those yet. I do use RMA-223 flux.
Looking forward for your thoughts and any further tips would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I've been practicing on working on SMD component (trying on scrap boards of course). Many resources I came across online calls to set the temperature at 350 degree celsius and the air at half. I am able to remove components on some of the boards sometimes set at those values and they are mostly on older boards, but like I said mostly its a hit and a miss. I do experiment with slightly higher temperature and different air settings. I never go above 380 degree celsius though.
Then I came across a youtube instructional video which suggest to use the temperature at 400 degree celsius. Could that be right? Would that be an ok temperature to set at especially if I'm planning to reuse the removed components? Setting my station at that temperature definitely gets the components removed very easily.
I am having particular bad luck removing DPAK packages specially the body connection. I haven't tried using 400 degree celsius on those yet. I do use RMA-223 flux.
Looking forward for your thoughts and any further tips would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks