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Powerful reporting facilities allow the user to generate customized printouts,
including any or all of the analysis results or raw temperature data.
This manual contains the following sections:
• Basic Hardware (p. 11) – The standard system's thermal barriers and
thermocouple probes, their specifications and their care and maintenance.
• Reflow Temperature Profiles (p. 19) – All the stages of obtaining a
temperature profile from a typical reflow process, including the positioning
of probes and using the profiles to correct faults in the soldering process.
• Wave Solder (p. 31) – Use of a Reflow Tracker system in a wave-solder
process.
• Easy Oven Setup (p. 37) – Set up an oven for a new product by
predicting an oven recipe. (Not available in Insight Reflow Tracker Basic and
Reflow Lite.)
• Surveyor (p. 43) – Monitor an oven's performance in order to assess
trends and check whether it has deteriorated. (Insight Reflow Tracker
Professional only.)
• Troubleshooting (p. 51).
The dedicated User Manual supplied with your data logger should be read in
conjunction with this manual. It provides information on operating the logger,
including:
• Installing Insight and establishing communication between logger and PC.
• Resetting the logger with new data-collection parameters.
• Downloading the collected data to the PC.
• Use of hardwired telemetry.
• Troubleshooting logger problems.
For full details on use of the Insight software, refer to the online Help system
available when the software is installed.
System Components
A typical Reflow Tracker system comprises:
• Data logger, with communications lead and charger; logger with radio-
telemetry option includes internal transmitter.
• Receiver (radio-telemetry option only).
• Thermal barrier – to protect the logger during its time in the oven.
• Thermocouple probes.
• Insight Reflow Tracker software.
• User documentation:
8
Introduction
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