Wave Soldering Solutions

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Wave Soldering

Electrovert®’s award-winning wave soldering technologies have long met the demanding throughput and process control challenges of applications such as lead-free wave soldering.  In wave soldering, Electrovert ‘sets the industry standard’ in process capability, process control, flexibility, reliability, and performance.

Vitronic Soltec offers a full range of high-performance wave soldering systems that provide the best value to the global mid-range market.   This includes low cost of ownership, high yields, ease of use and 24/7 repeatability and reliability.

Wave Soldering SMT

Even though most SMT soldering is achieved through reflow, some assemblies require that some of the Surface Mounted Devices (SMDs) on a board, such as chip components, must be wave soldered.

Top Side Hole Filling

As the complexity of PCB assemblies continues to increase, many electronics assemblers are seeking a solution in a wave soldering machine.

Nitrogen tunnel soldering

As PCB designs become more complex, thicker, and denser, through-hole soldering is becoming more difficult. The introduction of lead-free alloys compounds these problems because lead-free alloys don’t wet as well as lead-bearing alloys, and deeper holes (due to PCB thickness) make thorough hole-filling less certain in many cases.

Lead-free soldering

In the demanding environment of lead-free soldering, it is important to understand the different characteristics of lead-free materials. Wetting times for lead-free alloys are slower than those of tin/lead, and flow characteristic are more viscous.

Fluxing Applications

Of the many flux products developed for soldering applications, most electronics assemblers prefer to use no-clean, low solids formulations, in part because they eliminate the post-reflow cleaning or defluxing process step.

Closed-loop Process Control

As board assemblies become increasingly complex and difficult to solder, board manufacturers are looking for wave solder machines that can provide closed-loop process control and automatic features.