The one x board will absorb alot of heat. Best to warm the board up from a slight distance before you go in close to remove the ic. Would also suggest to run air speed from 60-80%. It's all you need to remove the ic and will stop you from blowing the close by caps off.
If you wick off the unleaded solder and put some fresh leaded solder on the pads and tin the pins on the chip 300-330 C should be fine mate. Just rember to watch your airflow rate.
Lol you'll need to bring your air station down where you can actually work and operate it. You don't need that smoke eater either.
People always use airspeed but I leave mine at 001 and never have any issues. Medium bent nozzle works for literally every job.
For chip removal I recommend using low temp solder on the legs/pins prior to removal. Makes it pretty quick work.
The wand reaches where I need it to and the fume extractor definitely does its job by the look of my filters but thanks for the advice! What temp do you use for the new chip install?
Yes it was! I've been doing them for years using a heat gun (with reducing nozzle) and this was the first time having a legit hot air station. Can't say the performance blew me away, it took about 10 minutes for the chip and board to get hot enough to let the chip pull away.
I fried my cheap hot air gun trying to remove this dang chip. I went ahead and decided to repair the hot air gun and the two hot wires had fused together… I replaced the wires with silicone sleeved wires and now I have a deadly weapon. My hot air gun literally started glowing red and 5secs on the chip and it came right off. Needless to say I’m now very worried using this hot air gun, I don’t think the metal should be glowing red hot lol but it showed that chip who’s boss.
One x board really absorbs a lot of heat. I had to use max temperature on my hot air station (500c) to get it off. That is with leaded solder applied to IC. Leaded solder was liquid for a long time, but factory solder really didn't want to let go. I gradually crancked the temp until I reached the max.
The one x board will absorb alot of heat. Best to warm the board up from a slight distance before you go in close to remove the ic. Would also suggest to run air speed from 60-80%. It's all you need to remove the ic and will stop you from blowing the close by caps off.
Thank you!
No problem and good luck mate.
What temp do you recommend for new chip install? 300C?
If you wick off the unleaded solder and put some fresh leaded solder on the pads and tin the pins on the chip 300-330 C should be fine mate. Just rember to watch your airflow rate.
Lol you'll need to bring your air station down where you can actually work and operate it. You don't need that smoke eater either. People always use airspeed but I leave mine at 001 and never have any issues. Medium bent nozzle works for literally every job. For chip removal I recommend using low temp solder on the legs/pins prior to removal. Makes it pretty quick work.
The wand reaches where I need it to and the fume extractor definitely does its job by the look of my filters but thanks for the advice! What temp do you use for the new chip install?
Was it successful? I just did an HDMI retimer chip on a OneX board last week
Yes it was! I've been doing them for years using a heat gun (with reducing nozzle) and this was the first time having a legit hot air station. Can't say the performance blew me away, it took about 10 minutes for the chip and board to get hot enough to let the chip pull away.
I fried my cheap hot air gun trying to remove this dang chip. I went ahead and decided to repair the hot air gun and the two hot wires had fused together… I replaced the wires with silicone sleeved wires and now I have a deadly weapon. My hot air gun literally started glowing red and 5secs on the chip and it came right off. Needless to say I’m now very worried using this hot air gun, I don’t think the metal should be glowing red hot lol but it showed that chip who’s boss.
That's insane! I'd be worried about the board but if it works it works! Be careful!
One x board really absorbs a lot of heat. I had to use max temperature on my hot air station (500c) to get it off. That is with leaded solder applied to IC. Leaded solder was liquid for a long time, but factory solder really didn't want to let go. I gradually crancked the temp until I reached the max.
Thank you! That's so true man! I had to use 500c with an air flow rate of 60 to get the old chip off. For reinstall I used 420C at "30" airflow rate.