When it comes to home-lab reflow work, there are a lot of ways to get the job done. The easiest thing to do perhaps is to slap a PID controller on an old toaster oven and call it a day.

With reflow soldering, sometimes close is good enough. At the end of the day, the home gamer really just needs a hot plate or an old toaster oven and a calibrated Mark I eyeball to get decent results.

Heller’s vacuum-assisted reflow technology, now widely implemented across customer installations in production, offers manufacturers a cost-effective solution with high efficiency and low unit per ...