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<p>Thanks very much, Kevin. I'll share something about my reflow
setup that I built for roughly $300 (but it involved a lucky find
of a good hood from some RTP lab, a wood stove flu and a really
good radial fan I just happened to have). I'm still using the
original <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.whizoo.com/">Controleo</a>
board (and my oven looks almost exactly like the one on their web
site: love that race car IR reflective stuff!). After poo-pooing
the drawbacks of the original version my project to make a much
better controller has been sitting unfinished for a very, very
long time. That tells you how satisfied I am, although if you need
to change profiles in a hurry we must hope their firmware is much
smarter these days. But I'm confident their current product is
really good. The industry experience they brought into their biz
was solid: they were not only enthusiasts (the archaic term that
comes to mind is "righteous dudes"). More on my setup when I have
some time.<br>
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<p>On a related note, I just posted something to do with <a
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href="http://triembed.org/blog/keeping-your-powderhhhhhh-ics-dry/">absorbed
moisture in ICs </a>on the TriEmbed web site.</p>
<p><i><b>TriEmbed folks that have been "vetted" are welcome to get
logins on the site and add their own content. It's a vanilla
Wordpress environment and there is a "role" set up to provide
different levels of privilege, etc. One non-negotiable
requirement is a password that can outlast an epoch of breakin
attempts. Wordpress sites are subjected to nearly continuous
attacks. The site is what we make it to be. I am uncomfortable
having disproportionately created content for seven years and
would very much like to become a bit player in the stats in
the future, and not just because my day job and other
circumstances are "blotting out the sun". </b></i><i><b>("Vetting"
is just to establish we know who you are as part of the
TriEmbed community, typically via meeting attendance, but
sometimes email correspondence, phone calls, etc) <br>
</b></i></p>
<p>Just for instance, somebody could add a posting about the monthly
virtual meetings <b>iff</b> the Jitsi server is up to it. If it
can't handle more than the current number of attendees then it
would be a bad idea IMO. But there are various walled gardens
wafting perfumed translations of "free" from all directions...<br>
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<p>-Pete</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/21/20 11:22 AM, Kevin Schilf
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Please share any vendors that
are cost effective at 3-10 units. I am also interested in any
feedback the group has on toaster oven conversions or
inexpensive turnkey reflow ovens (< $500). It would be
handy to have an immediate prototype capability in-house.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I can recommend C-Tron
(Franklin) and GRT (Raleigh) for SMT assembly but the
quantities involved were 100's at a time? In both cases, the
service was cost effective and high quality. I don't know if
this would be cost effective at such small volumes. Volume is
King. :-)<br>
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<div> On Friday, August 21, 2020, 8:48:32 AM EDT, Pete Soper
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<div><font face="sans-serif">I'm shopping for a supplier
to assemble smalll quantities of PCBs (eg Q3-10 of 21
kinds of board in one case). The two in the subject
line are on my list but I wonder if anybody can add to
it? I need something akin to OSH Park/OSH Stencils:
zero human comms if I haven't screwed something up or
gotten a surprise and ideally a week to three at most
from upload to assembled boards in hand. If/when the
project progresses there will be special requirements
and that's when I would approach Better Boards or the
like, so shops like that are not what I'm looking for
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