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Turn on the main power switch on the back of the unit and the indicator light in the upper
left of the screen lights up in green. If you press the red
ON-OFF
button, the display on
the picture below will show
USE
,
WELD
and
CONST
.
Soldering Mode (WELD)
Preliminary note: the temperature and time settings in the
delivery condition of the stove are only indicative. The
parameters suitable for your application must be determined
by test soldering. Please also refer to the information
provided by the solder paste manufacturer.
After pressing
ON-OFF
,
WELD
is highlighted. Press
RUN
to
display the dialogue as shown in the picture on the left.
RUN
starts the cycle, the indicator light in the upper left
corner of the display turns red and the oven starts to heat up.
The soldering cycle will be explained later. Here we first
explain the setting options.
If you press
SET
instead of
RUN
, then
READY
(pre-heat-phase) will be highlighted. Use
the arrow keys to change the text to
HEAT
,
WELD
,
HOLD
or
COOL
. Stay on
READY
and press
SET
. The marking jumps to
TEMP
(temperature) and you can adjust the
temperature between
70
and
130°C
with the arrow keys. Another press on
SET
and you
can change the time between
00:00
and
99:99
(minutes: seconds).
Button
SET
takes you back to
READY
and here you can use the arrow keys to go e.g. to
HEAT
to set the parameters for the heating phase. Press
SET
to go to the temperature
settings and use the arrow keys to set values between
120
and
300°C
. Another
SET
takes you to the time setting for the heating phase.
Back to
HEAT
, press arrow down to get to the actual soldering phase.
WELD
is marked
and with
SET
you can change the temperature again between
120
and 3
00 ° C
and set
the time with another
SET
.
For
HOLD
, the holding time, the same applies, but the temperatures can only be
adjusted between
70
and
230 ° C
here.
When you have finally arrived at
COOL
, the cooling phase, you can only set the
temperature between
70
and
200 ° C
here. A time is not set in section
COOL
, but a
signal terminates the entire soldering cycle when the set temperature is reached.
