{"id":129,"date":"2019-09-04T19:39:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T02:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robingingras.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2019-09-04T19:39:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T02:39:50","slug":"t-962a-reflow-oven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robingingras.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/04\/t-962a-reflow-oven\/","title":{"rendered":"T-962A Reflow Oven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was recently asked about how I go about reflow soldering, so I decided to do a quick write-up on my oven and process. I bought this oven several years ago on eBay, and you can still find them<\/a> today. While I did consider the modified toaster oven route, in the end I decided that a box that was purpose-built for reflow was a better choice in the long run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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The T-962A Infrared Reflow Oven<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Oven<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The oven itself is little more than a toaster oven on steroids. It has four heating elements inside, and a large fan in the back. There is a 320mm x 300mm drawer where your PCBs sit. Two thermocouples come down from the top of the chamber for temperature measurement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The front panel is pretty simple, just a dot matrix screen with five buttons and two LED indicators. I won’t go into the stock firmware or control board, as I found them unsatisfactory and I never used them much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time I bought my oven, they came pretty much unusable, owing to the fact that they used low-quality masking tape inside the oven that tends to give off a rather unpleasant odor upon first use. The tape is in place to keep the oven insulation sealed. This issue is solved by opening up the oven and replacing the masking tape with Kapton or some other heat-resistant tape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n