BGA Rework Stations is the first and one of the actual professional websites on the internet.
On BGA Rework Stations.com (this website), I’ll count you, from 35+ years of experience in electronic service fields, reverse engineering point of view, and from my 10+ years of research, to buy a real professional BGA Rework Station. I don’t found one. Instead, I found that professional BGA Rework Stations don’t exist. What I’ll found was only popcorn, pizza machines, or Santa Claus cousin that “well-known, professional, Chinese manufacturers” sell us as “Professional BGA Rework Stations.” The future doesn’t exist. The actual professional BGA Rework Station is not invented… Yet…
“If the future doesn’t exist, I’ll invent it.” I do not pretend that I’m best or worse than others; what I’ll pretend is the fact that I express my opinions from a scientific-technological point of view. Common sense says that this is the right way. If you are a guy that thinks that for you, do not exist more mysteries in electronics, this website is not for you. For the other electronics professionals, you are welcome to take a look and read all information with patience and attention. In the end, please bring your conclusions.
You are an electronic service shop, a hardware developer, a component manufacturer, an electronics device warranty representative, aviation electronics, space electronics, boat electronics, F1 cars electronics… You name it what you are; you need one or more Real Professional BGA Rework Stations. It is a must. You search all over the internet and see… A considerable amount of “Professional BGA Rework Stations.” Prices are $200 to $120,000 for ERSA HR-600 XL garbage; I think that exists some Chinese junk in this price range… All “well-known” “professional manufacturers” claim they will sell you Professional BGA Rework Stations. But… this is a simple and false affirmation! Any affirmation needs to be demonstrated/proved. Well… No proves.
On this website, I’ll dismount all those affirmations based on pseudo things you’ll see all over the internet.
Manufacturer | I search for | PDR-Rework | KURTZ-ERSA | PACE | Finetech | Martin | Zephyrtronics | ATCO-US | APR-Scorpion | AIR-VAC | Shuttle-Star (China) |
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Price Range | Fair price for technology | $8,548 – $47,807* | $12,000 – $110,000 | $47,000 – $62,726 | $40,000 – $87,000* | $30,000 – $60,000* | $3,995 – $8,240 | Around $46,000* | $28,000 – $57,000 | Around $50,000 | $200 – $120,000 |
Number of Models | 5 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 5 | >100 |
Manufacturer Country | United States of America / Europe | United Kingdom | Germany | Germany | United States of America | Germany | United States of America | United States of America | United States of America | United States of America | China / India / South Korea |
Power Supply | EU – 230V / US – 120V | EU – 230V | EU – 230V / EU – 400V | EU – 230V / US – 120V | EU – 230V * | EU – 230V * | US – 120V * | EU – 230V * | EU – 230V * | US – 120V * | Many |
Consumed power | 2000W – 3000W | 2000W – 3000W | 1200W – 31,000W | 1300W – 2400W | 2500W | 5300W | About 2000W* | 3500W – 3900W | 2800W | 4500W – 15,000W | Up to 64,000W |
PCB maximum size | 50″ / 1250 mm | 24″ / 620 mm | 50″ / 1250 mm | 24″ / 610 mm | 16″ / 400 mm | ** | 20″ / 520 mm | 20″ / 508 mm | 13.5″ 343 mm – open | 32″ / 800 mm | 40″ / 1000 mm |
Bottom Heating Zones | UHU – Ultra High Uniformity | 9 | 64 | Many | 1 or 2*** | Many | 1 or 2 *** | 3 | 3 | 1 | Copy / paste all Zones!!! |
Bottom Technology | Tungsten – NIR / SWIR | Quartz / MWIR / LWIR | Ceramics / LWIR | Quartz / MWIR / LWIR | Hot air / nitrogen?! | Quartz / MWIR / LWIR | Hot air / nitrogen?! | Quartz / MWIR / LWIR / Hot air / nitrogen?! | Hot air / nitrogen | Metallic hot plate / LWIR??? | Copy / paste all!!! |
Bottom pseudo technology | Direct Electromagnetic Energy Transfer | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating |
BGA / chip max. size | 3.2″ / 80 mm | 2.2″ / 55 mm | 2.4″ / 60 mm | 2.5″ / 65 mm | 2.4″ / 60 mm | *** | *** | 2.25 / 57 mm | 2.24″ / 57 mm | 3″ / 75 mm | Many |
Top heater technology | NIR / SWIR – LASER | NIR / SWIR / MWIR | Hybrid / Hot air – Nitrogen / LWIR / MWIR | Hot air / LWIR / MWIR | Hot air / nitrogen | Hot air / nitrogen??? | Hot air | Hot air / nitrogen | Hot air / nitrogen | Hot air | Copy / paste all!!! |
Top heater pseudo technology | Direct Electromagnetic Energy Transfer | Direct energy transfer | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating | Temperature direct convection heating |
Temperature NIST calibration | YES | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
NIST traceable certificate | YES | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Chip positioning | SSCPS / Beam Combiner / Pick & Place | “Beam-splitter” | “Beam-splitter” / Pick and place | “Beam-splitter” | “Beam-splitter” | “Beam-splitter” | “Beam-splitter” | “Beam-splitter” | “Beam-splitter” | “Beam-splitter” | “Beam-splitter” |
Process view camera | Close View CUPVC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No / Yes |
PCB fixture | UCAFPCB | Wrong – elastic | Fixed / rigid | Fixed / rigid | Fixed / rigid | Wrong – magnetic | Fixed / rigid | Fixed / rigid | Fixed / rigid | Fixed / rigid | Fixed / rigid |
Own vacuum | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No / Yes |
Positioning accuracy | Adaptive AHPPS | Inutile μm fight**** | Inutile μm fight**** | Inutile μm fight**** | Inutile μm fight**** | Inutile μm fight**** | Inutile μm fight**** | Inutile μm fight**** | Inutile μm fight**** | Inutile μm fight**** | Inutile μm fight**** |
PCB cooling | Two Zone TBPCS | “Air Knife” | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No / Yes |
A Real Professional BGA Rework Stations is a MUST-have and MUST-have best practice, science, technology, and common sense.
All “well-known” “professional manufacturers” claim that their garbage uses the best technologies, best practices, and the highest accuracy, science, warranty, and support, yield 99%, best practice, the best approach, and so on. They have/use pseudoscience, pseudo-technology, promiscuity, lies, unfulfilled promise, and more… As for their behavior to make affirmations, I’ll make the above protestations but unlike them… I will demonstrate/argue/prove all my affirmations on this website about BGA Rework Stations and more.
I have two sites, bga-rework-station.com, and bga-rework-stations.com. If you pay attention, you will see they are not the same websites! First (bga-rework-station.com it is singular…) and second (bga-rework-stations.com – it is plural). I’ll start a free-to-use information campaign on those two websites for you. Why did I do that?! Simply… More than ten years ago, I’ll search to buy Real Professional BGA Rework Stations. After a superficial (many months…) search, I think I’ll find one… $50,000 – a PDR Rework garbage. After over ten years, I look behind, and I’ll see that when I want to buy that garbage… I was an… IGNORANT.
But that ignorance wasn’t my fault; it was due to the lack of information on the internet! Without accessible/clear/accurate information, I’ll tend to believe all aberrations that all “well-known” “professional manufacturers” claim about BGA Rework Stations.
At that time, I didn’t buy my “dreamed” BGA Rework Stations due to a simple… fact. I don’t have enough money at that moment, meantime while collecting enough money; I’ll start my research about BGA Rework Stations from a scientific/technological point of view. This saved my pockets at that time, but… years later… destroyed my packets. From my math, more than 100,000 pcs of garbage currently exist on the market. Exist more than 100,000 guys that kill BGAs / PCBs worldwide. Equally, what they say (perfect rework, control, advice, and so on)… That garbage can’t be controlled. It can’t be accurate. All this because the science behind says that about what the name… BGA Rework Stations.
The internet become a jungle where you have the real possibility of losing two most important things… Time and money. So many gurus (with only bullshit in what they say…) are on the internet that you are tempted to believe them. Many are crying on various “professional” (nothing professional) forums and catch the wisest ever advice from guys who know nothing about electronics. They’re speaking about all, including the BGA Rework Stations subject. Please remember some facts – you can unmount and mount a BGA Chip with many devices, cooktop machines, pizza machines, popcorn machines, barbecue machines, DIY things, Santa Claus cousin, you name it.
With all that tools, you can unmount and mount a BGA chip uncontrolled, the same manner as actual “Professional BGA Rework Stations from well-known, professional Chinese manufacturers.”
If you have some luck… it is possible that all will work on the fly. Does that mean that all that improper machines are Professional BGA Rework Stations?! No. The electronic is a science; it is an exact science. A BGA Rework Station is a tool that MUST have the science at its base and reply scientifically to the Rework process. The rest are… garbage. Electronic science doesn’t work with luck.
Now, when I’ll write these reviews and try to organize them, I’ll see that all (three reviews now) have in common one error, the biggest ever error in the world; that makes possible the fact that for more than 35 years, it has been possible that all garbage that is named BGA Rework Stations can be sold/bought, all over the world. Heating a PCB / board is the primary and most important approach in BGA Rework Process / selective soldering. You’ll heat the PCB / board as the first parameter / best practice / must-known to achieve 100% repetitiveness / 100% yield. It is unbelievable that the world doesn’t know how to heat a PCB / board.
The unusual situation is not that the users of “well-known manufacturers” BGA Rework Stations don’t know how to heat a PCB / board. The significant problem is that all “well-known manufacturers” themselves, even they don’t hear about Tg – the point. What a shame, what a shame for an entire industry. Promoting tools that destroy PCB / boards is the worst, most shameful situation for all self-named. “Well-known manufacturers.” You, who brought this garbage from today’s market, have blindly trusted their affirmations. That was a colossal error. This is the dark side of an entire industry.
I can understand that all world manufacturers, with the marketing/publicity, manipulate the consumers/clients with some true affirmations and small gaps… But I can’t understand how an entire world’s professional industry can be used only with lies, cheats, worst practice recommendations, and false/fake affirmations about BGA Rework Stations. I can’t believe that professionals in the most qualified science in the world, the science that put a man on the Moon, the science that give the PC, iPhone, and the electronics sciences, can be fooled by some amputated brain ignorant’s thefts. It is unbelievable.
Self-nominated – “Well-known manufacturers,” almost all with IPC certificates, the “IPC Certificates” = a pyramidal game, are made only for money-hungry persons with nothing to do with the electronics industries/electronics sciences. They only sell fumes/dreams/illusions. They can’t teach you… anything to you, truly / real / professionals in electronics sciences, in the electronics industry. You have your study diploma/certificate; you have many years of experience. Can’t come in front of you some salesmen’s to teach you soldering… Let’s be serious, people! They are only cheating you. A salesperson will teach you about BGA Rework Stations?!. Salespeople can’t teach you anything!
What they sell as "Real Professional BGA Rework Stations" have nothing to do with best practice, science, technology, or common sense. They all have pseudo-sciences, pseudo-technologies, lies, cheats, and promiscuity... All that with the world's most significant, worst lack of common sense.
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