Beta Reflow Kit
We we’re sceptical when we purchased this but it’s turned out top be a great buy. Previously we assembled most prototypes in house using a compressor and precision liquid dispenser to place a blob of solder on each pad, then placing the SMD component on and then soldering each pad with a soldering iron. The Beta reflow kit combined with Beta Layouts free SMD laser stencils is the business and makes assembling SMD PCB’s much less painful. It isn’t perfect and after reflowing a PCB be ready to go round removing the odd solder bridge and soldering any large components such as big Elect capacitors that haven’t reflowed. However we’ve happily soldered down to 0603, 0.5mm pitch components and IC’s with underside GND pads (not BGA’s!) and had very few problems. (more…)
