Conductive Polymer Aluminum Solid Electrolytic Caps.

[keeney123]

Re: Conductive Polymer Aluminum Solid Electrolytic Caps.

I haven't really seen any good BGA Reballers. I've seen a few wtf's? Like a Home Depot heat gun hooked to some 2x4 with C-Clamps and a skillet being used for a preheater. I'm not looking for something like that. I'm looking for something that I can program, maybe even control some actuator or stepper motor from the PC to move a digital microscope up and down, etc. Maybe something like this:

http://www.tequipment.net/WellerWQB4000SOPS.html?v=0

Just IR instead of hot air.

That only cost $27,000. What a deal.

[keeney123]

Re: Conductive Polymer Aluminum Solid Electrolytic Caps.

you mean the maximum drive to the iron?
it's high, from memory it's about 130w because it's just a fet switching the psu feed.
you could even use a bigger fet if you needed.

The question then becomes can that be continuous 130 watts or is it peak wattage for a temporary time?

[stj]

Re: Conductive Polymer Aluminum Solid Electrolytic Caps.

the fet can do it continuous.

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Conductive Polymer Aluminum Solid Electrolytic Caps.

That only cost $27,000. What a deal.

Yeah, when I saw the price tag (I've seen this unit before when I was looking into BGA Reballers), I was like oh no. Normally, because I don't necessarily make a lot of money, what I do is just save it slowly up. I'll make sure the bills are paid and we have food and all that. I was putting around 100$ in an envelope every month. Not much, but it can add up. If I fixed PCs and made some extra, I'd put it in.

I saved up enough to buy my wife this fancy Samsung Galaxy 7S or S7 cell phone that way. Because the phone costed so much, it emptied my entire savings. But this month, I just happened to fix a lot of PCs and was able to save 545$ in a good three weeks or so. 27,000$ though? I don't think I'd ever be able to save that much. If I do, something like a house would be on my mind, not a reballer! I really want to try and make one. A good one, with at least 2,000 watt bottom preheater, stuff like that. I'd need to find schematics, PCB layout files, BOMs and the software to control it on the net though because I lack the technical know-how to just make one myself all from scratch.

[keeney123]

Re: Conductive Polymer Aluminum Solid Electrolytic Caps.

Yea, that is what us poor people do, make our own. If you make your own you will know the ins and outs of it. Plus, you will have the fun of being creative and you will do it for a fraction of the price.

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Conductive Polymer Aluminum Solid Electrolytic Caps.

Yea, that is what us poor people do, make our own. If you make your own you will know the ins and outs of it. Plus, you will have the fun of being creative and you will do it for a fraction of the price.

Yeah. That's what I like about Stj's link there. Even though I have a reliable soldering station that is, in my opinion, well built and serves my needs, I think it would be a great learning experience building the one he linked too. I have other priorities that must take precedence first though, but I want to build that control unit.

I also have a UV LED exposure unit for PCB boards that I've built. I still need to make an enclosure for it. Unfortunately, creativity is not one of my strong suits, nor is working with wood. I planned on making it out of wood first and once I get a good looking / working prototype that I'm happy with, buying some high grade aluminum and going down to one of the local machine shops to have them bend / route / drill / anodize the aluminum.

[stj]

Re: Conductive Polymer Aluminum Solid Electrolytic Caps.

didnt i say about putting that uv pcb into a flatbed-scanner case?

[Spork Schivago]

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didnt i say about putting that uv pcb into a flatbed-scanner case?

Yeah, but I've decided I didn't want to go that route Stj. I want something that resembles this I think:

https://www.labrepco.com/data/catego...-3-17-2015.png

That's a refrigerator, but I want it to be like that. With a door that opens. I want the glass to be special so it filters out the UV light but you can see inside of it. I think I want a tray that slides outs and then you put the board inside. Instead of modding something, I'd like to build it completely from scratch. First wood, then aluminum. I'll have the machine shop do the aluminum stuff for me though.