Fluke Datapaq Reflow Tracker User manual

Datapaq
®
Reflow
Tracker
®
USER MANUAL
for use with
Insight™software
Issue 4
MA5120A

Datapaq
®
Reflow Tracker
®
User Manual
for use with Insight™software
Issue 4
DATAPAQ PART NO. MA5120A
Datapaq is the world’s leading brand of
process temperature-monitoring
instrumentation, and maintains
this leadership by continual development
of its advanced, easy-to-use Tracker systems.
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SAFETY
WARNINGS
For safe use of Datapaq equipment, always:
•Take care to follow its supplied instructions.
•Observe any warning signs shown on the equipment.
Indicates potential hazard.
On Datapaq equipment this normally warns of high temperature, but,
where you see the symbol, consult the manual for further explanation.
Warns of high temperatures.
Where this symbol appears on Datapaq equipment, its surface may be
excessively hot (or excessively cold) and may thus cause skin burns.
© Fluke Process Instruments, Cambridge, UK 2018
All rights reserved
Fluke Process Instruments makes no representations or warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect
to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for
any particular purpose. Fluke Process Instruments shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for
incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance or use of
the Datapaq software, associated hardware or this material.
Fluke Process Instruments reserves the right to revise this publication from time to time and to make
changes to the content hereof without obligation to notify any person of such revisions or changes.
Datapaq, Reflow Tracker and the Fluke Process Instruments logo are registered trademarks of
Fluke Process Instruments. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
Manual set in 10 pt Gill Sans.
User manuals are available in other languages; contact Fluke Process Instruments for details.

CONTENTS
7 Introduction
8 System Components
11 Basic Hardware
11 Thermal Barriers
12 Barriers for DP5 Logger Standard, 6-channel, DP5x60
13 Barriers for DP5 Logger Super-slim, 6-channel, DP5x61
14 Barriers for DP5 Logger Narrow, 6-channel, DP5x62
14 Barriers for DP5 Logger, 12-channel, DP5x12
15 Barriers for Q18 Micro Logger, DQ1804
15 Thermocouple Probes
16 Thermocouple Specification
16 Thermocouple Cables
19 Reflow Temperature Profiles: Creation and Use
20 Probe Location
20 Main Considerations
20 Typical Probe Locations
21 Probe Attachment
21 Good Practice
22 Methods of Attachment
23 Restraining the Cable
23 Preparing the Logger
24 Installing the Logger in the Thermal Barrier
25 Placing the System in the Oven
25 Removing from the Oven and Downloading Data
26 Analysis of Reflow Temperature Profiles
26 Profile Types
27 Checking Profiles
27 Statistical Process Control

31 Wave Solder
32 Running a Wave-solder Temperature Profile
33 Preparing the System for the Oven
34 Removing from the Oven and Downloading Data
35 Analysis of Wave-solder Temperature Profiles
35 Checking Profiles
37 Easy Oven Setup
37 Profile Prediction
38 Recipe Prediction
38 Setting Process Limits
40 Generating Recipe Predictions
40 Refining the Predictions
42 Troubleshooting the Predictions
43 Surveyor
44 Surveyor Hardware: Specifications and Use
44 Carrier Frame
46 Sensors
46 Preparing for a Baseline Survey or Profile Run
48 Running a Baseline Survey and Setting Tolerances
48 Performing a Profile Run
49 Surveyor Index
49 Trends and Predictions with SPC
51 Troubleshooting
51 Checking the Data
52 Testing the Logger and Thermocouples
52 Datapaq Service Department
53 INDEX

REFLOW TRACKER Introduction 7
Introduction
Datapaq
®Reflow Tracker ®, incorporating Insight™software, is a complete
system for monitoring and analyzing the temperature profiles of products within
all types of soldering processes. Power and flexibility make it a perfect tool for
process temperature monitoring, from commissioning and troubleshooting to
process optimization, ensuring consistent quality of product, consistent oven
performance and maximum efficiency. Innovative analysis techniques help in
identifying problems, fine-tuning the process and reducing running costs.
Insight is available for the reflow industry in different levels of sophistication to
meet the requirements of all applications.
•Reflow Tracker Professional – A high-end system, including the
functionality of Surveyor (see below).
•Reflow Tracker – The standard system for wide application, including
ability to perform hardwired telemetry and (with additional hardware and
software) radio telemetry, Easy Oven Setup, and analysis of oven trends
using Statistical Process Control (see below).
•Reflow Tracker Basic – A reduced feature set, but with full analysis
options and wizard-driven procedures.
•Reflow Lite – Essential features for profile-gathering and simple analysis.
Reflow Tracker is equally useful for other soldering applications such as wave solder,
vapor phase, curing ovens and rework stations.
Telemetry options allow full monitoring of temperatures in real time while a
job is actually in the oven: hardwired telemetry is part of the standard system
(see the dedicated User Manual supplied with your data logger), and Reflow
Tracker can be specified to include the TM21 radio-telemetry system.
Statistical Process Control (SPC) allows easy analysis of the results of
profile runs over time, highlighting trends in the performance of your process,
and allowing potential problems to be identified and dealt with before they
occur.
Easy Oven Setup (not available in Insight Reflow Tracker Basic and Reflow Lite)
enables users rapidly and accurately to set up their ovens for new products and/
or new solder formulations by predicting the recipes that should be used to
achieve given temperature profiles – and with the Surveyor option (Insight
Reflow Tracker Professional only) you can compare a reference profile (baseline
survey) of your oven’s ideal performance against a profile which has been
obtained subsequently – by a relatively unskilled operator – in order to check
whether the oven performance has deteriorated.

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Powerful reporting facilities allow the user to generate customized printouts,
including any or all of the analysis results or raw temperature data.
This manual contains the following sections:
•Basic Hardware (p. 11) – The standard system’s thermal barriers and
thermocouple probes, their specifications and their care and maintenance.
•Reflow Temperature Profiles (p. 19) – All the stages of obtaining a
temperature profile from a typical reflow process, including the positioning
of probes and using the profiles to correct faults in the soldering process.
•Wave Solder (p. 31) – Use of a Reflow Tracker system in a wave-solder
process.
•Easy Oven Setup (p. 37) – Set up an oven for a new product by
predicting an oven recipe. (Not available in Insight Reflow Tracker Basic and
Reflow Lite.)
•Surveyor (p. 43) – Monitor an oven’s performance in order to assess
trends and check whether it has deteriorated. (Insight Reflow Tracker
Professional only.)
•Troubleshooting (p. 51) .
The dedicated User Manual supplied with your data logger should be read in
conjunction with this manual. It provides information on operating the logger,
including:
•Installing Insight and establishing communication between logger and PC.
•Resetting the logger with new data-collection parameters.
•Downloading the collected data to the PC.
•Use of hardwired telemetry.
•Troubleshooting logger problems.
For full details on use of the Insight software, refer to the online Help system
available when the software is installed.
System Components
A typical Reflow Tracker system comprises:
•Data logger, with communications lead and charger; logger with radio-
telemetry option includes internal transmitter.
•Receiver (radio-telemetry option only).
•Thermal barrier – to protect the logger during its time in the oven.
•Thermocouple probes.
•Insight Reflow Tracker software.
•User documentation:

REFLOW TRACKER Introduction 9
○Reflow Tracker User Manual.
○Data logger User Manual (specific to the logger model).
○TM21 Radio-telemetry System User Manual (radio-telemetry option only).
Additional hardware is supplied with Wave Solder (p. 31) and Surveyor
systems (p. 43).
This manual, and other Datapaq user documentation, in various languages, is
available on the Insight installation DVD included with Datapaq systems. During the
software installation, you may select documents to be copied to your PC for rapid
on-demand viewing through Insight.

10 Introduction REFLOW TRACKER