WaveRIDER® NL 2

Description

Features

In our continuing commitment to bring our customers the best products possible, we have recently made a design improvement to our WaveRIDER coupon. We have added an anchor to our solder thermocouple which fixes it at a 2mm depth. This should provide better repeatability, and additionally give a better representative solder temperatures. Existing users can upgrade to the new style coupons, but will need to expect a shift in their data (old style coupons will remain available to support existing customer needs should they choose to maintain their existing data sets.).

Measurement Parameters include:
-Dwell (contact) time
-Contact length
-Conveyor Speed
-Wave Parallelism
-Preheat Ramp (slope)
-Delta T at Wave
-Solder Temperature
-Top & Bottom side Board Temperature
-Immersion Depth
-Settable Upper and Lower Measurement Spec limits
-SPC control charts
-One piece pallet and thermal barrier

Benefits

-Allows control of machine stability with a reliable test fixture instead of a Golden Board
-Fine-tuning of the Wave Solder machine raises productivity
-Quantifies machine measurements for informed control
-Helps reduce rework
-Eliminates guessing and tightens maintenance protocol
-Provides data to operators for a Go/No-Go indication of machine readiness
-Maximizes yields and improves profitability
-Reassures customers that through-hole soldering is in control
-Saves time and effort as machine can be profiled without attaching thermocouples
-Enables pre-emptive machine adjustments
-Trackable, historic electronic data collection more reliable than glass plates