946C SMD Hot Plate for Rework Pre-Heating or Reflow Soldering

The 946C Hot Plate provides a relatively uniform heating surface, allowing the temperature to be set between 50 and 350 deg C.
This unit can be used to pre-heat PCBs for rework or component removal, but I'm going to use it to reflow a PCB with surface mount components.

0:00 Intro
1:43 Grounding Check
2:20 Power On and Set Temperature
3:00 Thermocouple Measurement on Hot Plate surface and Reflow Profile Discussion
5:44 Thermocouple on PCB surface vs Hot Plate surface
8:14 Using solder paste stencil
9:45 Hand placing surface mount parts and reflowing solder
10:28 Visual inspection and PCB functional test

946C Solder Hot Plate 200mm x 200mm (affiliate link)
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Solder paste used - MG Chemicals Sn42Bi57Ag1 Low Temperature Solder Paste T3, LEAD FREE, NO CLEAN, 15g (affiliate links):
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Useful links:
Identifying SMT soldering defects and causes:
https://aimsolder.com/sites/default/files/documents/smt_ts.pdf
SMT reflow process guidelines:
https://www.aimalloys.com/sites/default/files/soldering_handbook_rev_10-13.pdf

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