I think you can use a thomermal couple to verify the actual temperature. Hot air temp 425 C is too high for the some components repair. You should check whether the component can bear such high temp, or not. Thanks and best regards Eddie Lewis Liu <[log in to unmask]> Sent by: TGAsia <[log in to unmask]> 03/02/2010 12:03 PM Please respond to Asia Committe Task Group Forum <[log in to unmask]>; Please respond to Lewis Liu <[log in to unmask]> To [log in to unmask] cc Subject [RMX:##] [TGAsia] measure the hot air temperature method Hi,All: In IPC 7721 and 7711 document just mentioned the hot air temperature is approximately 425¡æ and adjust it if necessary £¬but it didn¡¯t define the test method to get the real temperature. Do you have the relative solutions? Thanks, Lewis Liu (Áõ¶¨ºÀ£© Engineering Department Failure Analysis laboratory Supervisor Tel:+86 -25- 52728710 Cell:+86 -25 -13851527451 Mail: [log in to unmask] Kimball Electronics (Nanjing) Co.,Ltd ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________