Charles,
To quote an unnamed Mountain Dew drinking Icon of our industry, it
depends.If you live in a perfect world and have no variables,controllable or
not, than hot bar soldering could work as a prototype assembly tool. If you
have high reliability requirements, I would not use it as a production tool.
Dewey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Caswell [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 12:22 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      [TN] hot bar soldering
>
> I have been asked to look into hot bar soldering. I have a surface mount
> connector that cannot go through the reflow oven. The assembly has fiber
> optic cables that can't go over 90C. The some of the pads are directly
> attached to the ground plane and I am having trouble getting coverage. The
> customer suggested hot bar. I'm just wondering how effective this would be
> as
> well as what equipment costs.
>
>
> Charles Caswell
> The Big Kahuna
>
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