Vaporflow | Vapour Phase Reflow Oven

The Vaporflow 275 is a reflow oven that uses vapour phase to reflow solder circuit boards. Problems that occur with small infrared or convection ovens are a thing of the past. Components with large thermal mass, fine pitch, or with black plastic are easily soldered using this oven.
The Vaporflow heats a special liquid to soldering temperature, creating a vapor that coats the circuit board. This vapor heats the circuit board very uniformly to 1 temperature. The uniform heating makes soldering circuit boards with various components very easy.
The Vaporflow provides a stainless steel container in which the circuit boards are placed on a tray. At the bottom of the kettle is a layer of liquid. The kettle is sealed with a lid. The vaporflow heats the liquid according to a pre-programmed profile. A sensor monitors the temperature inside the container. When the circuit board is soldered, the vapor is cooled again against the walls of the oven with powerful fans.
The soldering temperature is determined by the chosen vapor phase liquid. The standard liquid is Galden LS230, with which all common leaded and lead-free printed circuit boards can be soldered. The Vaporflow can handle all vapor phase liquids with temperatures between 180 and 240℃.
With the touch screen, the soldering process can be started and stopped. During soldering, a graph is displayed with the measured and set temperatures. All values can be logged to an SD Card. Custom soldering profiles can also be created for specific applications or fine-tuning.
The Vaporflow features multiple safeguards to prevent overheating. A sensor detects if the lid is placed.

[@walimo6810]

Is it compatible with LEDs? Is there a chance the liquid vapour react with the glass or silicone lenses to blur them?

[@VaporflowSoldering]

Vapoflow is a great solution for metalcore PCBs, but we haven't tested soldering LEDs yet. Could you name a LED which is available in small quantity from Farnell/ RS/ Mouser in Europe? Then we can test it 🙂

[@ThereIsNoRoot]

My first thoughts also @walimo6810. @@VaporflowSoldering check out WS2812b or APA102.

[@michaelnguyen2975]

@@VaporflowSoldering Can you try this LED? SMTL4-SBC-YG

[@VaporflowSoldering]

Yeah we will. However currently it will take a month. We will design & order a metal core PCB to test these LEDs.

[@yoonseo-kang]

The 2 requirements of high-quality vapor phase reflow are STABLE TEMPERATURE PROFILE AT BOARD (support flux activation and reduce thermal shock consequences) and VACUUM (extract air voids from solder joints, ideally

[@VaporflowSoldering]

This is a desktop prototyping and small batch production machine indeed. It provides more consistent results than similar convection ovens.

[@trouble_maker023]

Can it be used for melting a already reballed bag chip on a board ?

[@VaporflowSoldering]

That is a use case we haven't tested yet. Theoretically it will work.

[@RusokuLab]

I want this one.