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New JBC Preheater Range - Why You Should Invest In Preheaters For 2021

New JBC Preheater Additions To The RangeNew JBC Preheater Additions To The Range

The JBC Preheater Range Has A New Addition To The Ever Growing Family!

We are proud to soon be able to introduce two new JBC products into our online store. The new JBC Preheater range models PHNK and PHXK!

In honour of this, we thought we would do a comprehensive breakdown of why you should invest in a preheater.

An extremely useful bit of kit, a preheater should be a staple of your soldering workstation. So, for anyone that needs convincing, we have compiled below a guide to what they do, and which units would suit your needs soldering requirements the best!

 

What Does A Preheater Do?

To kick proceedings off for this post, lets go back to the basics. Some of you may not be aware of what a preheater actually does, especially if your soldering experience is limited.

The practice of preheating is to apply heat to a PCB before soldering, enhancing the process.

A preheater will do this by using small infrared lamps that heat up your PCBs. The JBC ranges in particular can heat up with temperatures from 50-250ºC. This will help to activate the flux on your PCB.

It has become especially important to use preheaters since the dawn of lead-free solders.

The next question you may have is "why are preheaters important?"

 

Why Is Preheating PCB’s Important?

Now when you are being told that you need to invest in more equipment for your soldering it is natural to wonder why it is important.

To obtain the best soldering (or desoldering) results, it is important to preheat your PCB’s, along with its components with controlled temperature profiles.

Just make sure that you keep within the recommended limit values for each application.

There are lots of reasons that advocate the use of preheaters in the soldering process. These include:

  1. Preheating helps to better activate the Flux
  2. It will reduce the thermal shock to the PCB, thus in turn will decrease the chance that your PCB will warp due to the sudden increase in temperature.
  3. Preheating will also decrease the exposure to molten solder, meaning that this minimises the possible damage to surrounding components.

These new models of JBC preheaters feature these temperature profiles, specially designed and customisable to your soldering needs.

 

Why Invest In The JBC Preheater Range?

JBC has futureproofed your preheating soldering needs with this new range. Hitting the Kaisertech online shelves in 2021, say goodbye to thermal stressing, with these four new units. Coming in a variety of sizes, they cater to everyone’s rework needs!

These Preheater units are crucial to your rework application on multi-layer PCBA’s, facilitating the soldering and desoldering process perfectly. These stations really are the best way to combat thermal stress.

Accompany these heaters with the software JBC Suite. This will allow you to connect your new preheating unit with other JBC hot air, soldering or fume extraction equipment.

This allows for all your JBC units to work coherently and perform the most optimal rework process!

New Model Ranges For The JBC Preheaters

PHNK Preheater For Small PCBAsPHNK Preheater For Small PCBAs

PHNK Preheater For Small PCBAs

  • Perfect for rework on small PCBAs such as mobile phones.
  • Unrivalled reliability in temperature accuracy and control, ensuring no component gets damaged.
  • Three working modes; Power mode, Temperature mode and Profile mode.
  • Two thermocouple can be connected in any of the three work modes.
PHXK Preheater Set For XL PCBAsPHXK Preheater Set For XL PCBAs

PHXK Preheater Set For XL PCBAs

  • Two independent work zones that can be toggled on and off to the users desire.
  • Full connection to the JBC Suite.
  • Operate seamlessly through the new intuitive menu navigation screen.
  • Capable of having up to eight thermocouples connected to the preheater

What Is The Right JBC Preheating Model For My Requirements?

It will not surprise you to learn that each of the four models in the new JBC preheating range are targeted towards different soldering requirements. So it depends on your purpose as to which unit offers you the most value.

Here is a small breakdown that will aid you in your decision.

PHNK Nano Preheater Set

This unit is the baby of the JBC Preheating family. The Nano preheater should be used on small PCBs such as mobile phones, so will be favoured by phone repair centres. Also, It has the smallest heating area, measuring 108x70mm, but you still can have two thermocouples (TC) connected.

PHSK Small Preheater Set

Optimally, you will be using this product for small to medium reworks. Therefore this particular unit is commonly used in electronic industries, with a heating area of 130x135mm. On this unit there are 4 ports where you can connect your TCs.

PHBK Large Preheater Set

The convection preheater is useful for operators that are soldering large to medium sized PCBs. Operators will commonly be using this unit for soldering on circuit boards that are used in laptops or PCs. Still with 4 TC connection points, the heating area for the PHBK modal measures at 360x277mm.

PHXK XL Preheater Set

Being the largest unit, the PHXK offers the highest specs of the new JBC preheater family. You should use this model for works on large PCBs, which can commonly be seen in communication boards or even aeroplanes. It is ideal for repetitive soldering with the largest heating area, 510x610mm. You can also connect up to eight TC's making it the most fully specked out unit of the bunch!

 

To Conclude

Hopefully this article has delved deep enough into the JBC range that you now have a better understanding of the preheating unit that will best suit your needs.

Should you have any questions about the new range or wish to discuss with us at more length regarding the products, drop us an email to [email protected] or call us on 023 8065 0065.