YOU WROTE:
>Does anyone have experience with using wave solder profiling
instruments,>e.g. the Mole WaveRIDER and Alpha solder wave optimiser?
>
>Are there any other instruments out there?
>
>Do these instruments measure the critical parameters in wave solder process
setup?
>
>Have you found them usefull/reliable/easy to use?
>
>Are there any other factors I should be looking for in purchasing one?
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>David Whalley
>Manufacturing Engineering Department
>Loughborough University
>Loughborough
>Leics LE11 3TU
>UK
>
>Tel. +44(0)1509 222930
>Fax. +44(0)1509 267725
>
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>http://info.lboro.ac.uk/departments/en/STAFF/David_Whalley/index.html

We use an ECD M.O.L.E. for all our solder profiling but are considering one
of these also.  Hope you get some good replies to your question to help in
our evaluation also.

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