After the successful introduction of the Breeze oven for LEAD FREE soldering DIMA SMT Systems has lifted this compact sized oven to a higher platform by adding the possibility to choose for a pin conveyor in stead of the standard mesh belt. Adding the pin conveyor makes it easier to handle double sided pcb’s and also provides the opportunity to place the oven in-line without having to add additional instruments.

For those companies that only have a single PCB or a small batch of PCB’s that need to be reflow soldered, a huge reflow oven is too big an investment. Especially for those companies the Breeze is the ideal solution. This 4+4 zone reflow oven with a total process length not bigger than 1200mm is capable of handling Lead Free profiles on boards up to a maximum size of 400mm. DIMA’s Breeze offers a power-ful convection heating irrespective of the size and mass of the components. The unlimited variation of temperature profiles is achieved by the tunnel design that in-cludes 4 top heating and 4 bottom heating zones. To minimise the stress for double sided boards the top and bottom temperature can be set independently. The total process length has been kept to only 1200mm including 1 cooling zone. To elimi-nate the possibility of damage caused by static, the Breeze includes an air ioniser in the cool down zone as standard equipment. The Breeze reflow oven offers full forced hot air heating to maintain consistent edge-to-edge temperatures, regardless of component size or density.

By adding the new pin conveyor option to the Breeze, the oven has become much more convenient to use in-line. The standard pin size of the conveyor is 5mm, but optional a pin size of 3mm can be chosen. Furthermore when using a pin conveyor no more carriers are needed in case double-sided boards are being used. Both the table top version as well as the stand-alone unit with cabinet can be equipped with the new pin conveyor. When using the Breeze with mesh belt PCB’s to a maximum width of 400 mm can be used. When using the Breeze with pin conveyor boards up to 350mm can be processed. The belt speed of the Breeze is adjustable from 50 mm/minute up to 800 mm/minute. The Breeze is equipped with a DIMASoft reflow profiler that is capable to store up to 6 different reflow profiles. Up to 99 different heating programs can be stored in the microprocessor of the Breeze. Through the RS232 interface an optional PC with Windows based oven manager software can be connected providing unlimited storage capacity for profiles and programs. The Breeze provides a power capacity of 8700W while it’s power consumption stays limited. Unlike the large reflow ovens the Breeze comes with an integrated self sup-porting exhaust system. Beside the Breeze also the Infra Red curing oven Zepher can be equipped with the same pin conveyor.

During Productronica 2007 in Munich (November 13 – 16), DIMA SMT Systems will live demonstrate the new Breeze with pin conveyor. You can find the DIMA’s reflow ovens in hall A4 on stand number 480.

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