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News Release from: OK International
Subject: HCT-900
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 15 November 2005

Hot air tool handles lead-free components

A low cost hot air tool is designed for removing and replacing thermally demanding lead-free components, from 0201s to 304-pin QFPs.

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OK International has developed a low cost hot air tool designed for removing and replacing thermally demanding lead-free components, from 0201s to 304-pin QFPs. The HCT-900 handheld convection tool is engineered as a versatile, solution for production facilities, featuring closed-loop thermocouple feedback, high-precision air pump, cool-down functions and analogue controls. Typical applications for the 300W unit include removal or replacement of QFPs, PLCCs, SOPs and TSOP devices.

It can also be used to provide heating and reflow for touch-up work as well as heat shrink and other local heating applications.

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