Hot Air Pencil SMD Hot Air Soldering Non-Contact SMT AirPencil Reflow Soldering System
ZEPHYRTRONICS® HOT AIRPENCIL ZT-2-MILSMT Pin-Point Precision & Non Contact Soldering Reflow System
The ZT-2-MIL AirPencil "is a touch-free precision soldering method." -- NASA Report, 2004
A True Hot Air Pencil Should Be
Pencil-Like
TM
#1
Hot Air Pencil in the World for Two Decades
And the Only True Hot Air Pencil
With Its Famous, World-Wide Recognizable Trademark
Pyramidal Design!
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An
Essential Soldering Tool!
The patented ZT-2-MIL Hot AirPencil™
is essential for SMD soldering. 20 years on
the market Still the most popular
touch-free, precision soldering
tool on earth.
Differentiation! The hand-piece is slim
as a pencil, not a hot air tool re-packaged
inside a big bulky soldering iron handle
blocking a tech's sight from tiny chips
being soldered. It is a true air "pencil".
100% Non-Contact!
It is a "touch-free" safer method for
soldering thermally sensitive IC's, QFP's,
PLCC's, SOIC's and delicate ceramic
capacitors, glass diodes and SMD resistors.
100% Non-Contact!
It is a "touch-free" safer method for
soldering thermally sensitive IC's, QFP's,
PLCC's, SOIC's and delicate ceramic
capacitors, glass diodes and SMD resistors.
Precision Temperature Control.
With closed
loop feedback and a variable temp dial and a
variable air flow dial, technicians control
with even
ultra-light settings for tiny chips.
The ZT-2-MIL
has a safe,
low
24-volt featherweight hand-piece with
an integrated 'pencil holder' centered in
the design (for right or left hands). Plus
it features; self-contained air (no air
hook-ups!and a rugged steel ESD-safe case.
Video: Hot AirPencil SMD Soldering
ZT-2
HOT AIR PENCIL
Description
Model
Price
Buy Now
The AirPencil™
ZT-2-MIL-120
(120 Volt for the U.S., Canada & Mexico)
$899.00
The AirPencil™
ZT-2-MIL-230
(230 Volt For
All Int'l Customers)
$899.00
ZT-2-TPK5
STAINLESS STEEL AIR TIP 5-PACK
$98.00
More Details:
The
Hot AirPencil™
Has Many Advantages of the Traditional
Soldering Iron:
First and foremost, the hot air pencil is
completely non-invasive providing precision,
pin-pointed, non-contact, low-velocity hot
air directly to the individual component
leads. But that's hardly the beginning:
Hot AirPencil™ vs the
Soldering Iron:
There are many additional advantages of the
hot air pencil over a traditional contact
soldering iron. Below are a just few:
a.)
Zero
opportunity to bend/deform delicate SMD
leads! Zero chance to scratch/ruin
fragile pads -- a common occurrence with
soldering irons.
b.) Unlike
contact soldering irons,
it
does not cross contaminate PCB's with
other alloys, dirt, grime, residual flux,
adhesives, etc.
c.)
Works with
Lead-free (RoHS) or traditional
tin/lead solders because it never
contacts the pad and/or solder unlike
traditional soldering tips which must be
always segregated at a bench.
d.) With the AirPencil™,
there is no
accidentally bumping or moving your
carefully placed SMD which is also a
drawback with the soldering iron which can
misalign the chip after it is placed because
it contacts the chip.
e.) The AirPencil™
excels where traditional soldering irons
fail in preparing or "touching up" pads.
While contact irons can leave unwanted tags
or "ice-cycles" compounding co-planarity
problems,
the hot
air pencil hot levels and leaves a smooth
pad.
f.)
Soldering irons can be very damaging to
ceramic chip capacitors and glass diodes
due to its immediate conduction of high
temperature directly to the leads setting up
unequal thermal expansion conditions between
a chip and its leads.
Soldering irons
have been the cause of significant quality
issues, with cracking and fissuring caps an
diodes. The
ZT-2-MIL, with its convective
nature, virtually eliminates this problem.
Touch-Free, Hot Air Soldering
Presents Many Advantages Over Traditional Contact
Soldering Irons
Ceramic Capacitors Must Always
Be Soldered With "Touch-Free" AirPencils --And Never
With Contact Soldering Irons-- To Prevent Thermal
Shock, Fissuring & Chip Cracking.
The ZT-2 AirPencil Features a
Unique 3-Turn Air Velocity Control Dial
Putting You In Control When Working
With Tiny Chips and When Working
With Solder Paste.
So Many
Features!
Rewriting all the rules,
Zephyrtronics pulled out all the
stops designing the ZT-2-MIL
AirPencil™hand-piece.
Consider the following 3 issues:
1) The
system delivers up to 530ºC at the
Air Tip exit and, yet is powered by
only an extra-safe,
extra-low 24 volts (Be sure
to investigate the high voltages of
our so-called "competition").
2)
It's
featherweight, pencil-thin hand
piece is, to our knowledge,
the lightest and thinnest AirPencil™
ever, making soldering a joy, not a
drudge.
3) Our
precision
air velocity control dial has 3 full
rotations extra fine adjustments
-- separating it from all other
high-velocity so-called "hot air
tools" which can and do blow tiny
chips away and/or scatter solder
balls up under IC's. Our unique
3-turn dial puts you in control
while you work.
The
AirPencil™
& Solder Paste: A Great Combination!
With our extra low air velocity, work with
confidence and success with solder paste
making high quality solder joints with
fillets at the toes, heels and sides of the
SMD's. Experience the difference! Yes,
solder paste at the bench? Want to see how
to use the ZT-2-MIL
AirPencil™?
Our
Color Pictorial Process
SMD Soldering With
Paste is Easy. The ZT-2-MILbelongs at every work bench where
critical PCB rework is performed. For
enhanced results, we recommend that it be
used in concert with any of our world-famous
ZT-1 AirBaths™
for quality thermal profiles through
pre-heating.
The ZT-2-MIL Belongs at Any Bench Where SMT
Soldering & DeSoldering Are Done. This is a Tool
You'll Wish You Had.
JUST SO SUPERIOR...
The ZT-2-MILAirPencil™
is just so superior to all other so-called
hot air tools because of its unique and
patented design and utility:
1.)Zero Level Static: The ZT-2-MILwas evaluated by Motorola's ESD
Lab and was the only hot air tool to
qualify for its extra-tough standard of
"Zero Static Level" for space applications.
Just so superior.
2.) Ultra-Skinny
Profile: You Can See The Chip You Are
Soldering! The
AirPencil™
is the sleekest, pencil-thin profile
on the market. Other manufacturers crudely
re-packaged their hot air tools into their
existing large, bulky solder iron handles
that obstruct vision to SMD's (chip caps,
resistors or chip scale size packages).
One can not "see around" such goofy
designed tools. Just so superior.
3.) An Ergonomic
& Feather-Weight Hand-Piece! The
ZT-2-MILis a real air "pencil" with its
patented lightweight hand-piece. Just
so superior.
4.) Only 24 Volts in
the Handle! Most
other hot air pencils require techs to wield
high voltages of 120 or up to 240 Volts in
their hands. Yikes!
The ZT-2-MILeasily reflows even high temp,
lead-free solder alloys with ease with only
24 Volts! How? Our effective internal air
heating chamber agitates air providing up to
510°C at the exit point of the AirTip™ at
the maximum setting. While we don't think
one should solder at those temperatures, but
we want to assure you that a properly
engineered 24-volt tool can deliver all
the punch that those high voltage tools do.
Just so superior.
5.)
Variable Air Flow With a Truly "Ultra-Light"
Range! Our
precision
air
velocity control dial has 3 full rotations
for the finest of adjustments ---separating
it from all other high-velocity so-called "hot
air tools" which can and do blow tiny chips
away during reflow and/or scatter solder
balls benath IC's. Just so superior.
A Wide Selection of Air Focusing Tips Are
Available:
Unlike traditional soldering "tips" which
oxidize, the ZT-2-MIL
utilizes long life stainless steel Air Tips
including the popular Oval Air Tip which
ships out standard with each system.
Five styles of these very affordable Air
Tips are available from Zephyrtronics. Plus,
every ZT-2-MILcomes
with a set of two non-magnetic, stainless
steel tweezers for chip removal.
Optional: 5 Distinct Stainless Steel
Air Tip Styles are Available for All SMD's
POPULAR OVAL
FAN
ROUND
ANGLED
FINE / JET
Air Opening I.D. .125" x .040"
Air Opening I.D. .300" x .040"
Air Opening I.D. .095"
Air Opening I.D. .095"
Air Opening I.D. .040"
ZT-2-002
ZT-2-006
ZT-2-003
ZT-2-004
ZT-2-005
This is the
AirPencil Used By NASA and JPL!
Yes, the
ZT-2-MIL AirPencil
is the very
same one used at NASA and JPL for soldering
on the two successful Mars Rovers launched
in 2003.
NASA wrote
that the
ZT-2-MIL
makes "mounting/removal of through-hole and
surface mount components
easier than routine benchtop methods" and
that it
"minimizes thermal stresses due to
temperature differentials during assembly
and rework"
saying that the ZT-2-MIL
"is a touch-free precision soldering
method." -- NASA 39-Page Report,
January 9, 2004
First
Rover "Spirit" Launched
June 10, '03. Arrival on Mars Jan. 3, '04
Non-Contact Reflow for Fine Pitch
Gull Wing QFP's
Easy Reflow of
J-Leaded SOJ's, PLCC's, SOIC's
Rapid
Removal & Replacement of Components
Adjustable Air Flow & Variable Temp
Control
The
Rover, "Opportunity" Launched
July 7, '03. Arrival on Mars
Jan. 24, '04
* * * Photographs Courtesy of NASA *
* *
FEATURES & BENEFITS
Non-Contact Reflow Soldering for SMD's.
Closed Loop & Zero Cross Switching. Electronic
Temperature Control.
Variable Air Flow and Temp Settings.
Self-Contained Air Supply (No Air Hook-Ups!)
Precision, Pin-Pointed Heated Air Stream.
Reflows Individual Component Leads Only.
No Adjacent Component Reflow.
Ultra Light Air Flow Settings to Prevent Unwanted
Scattered Solder Balls.
Mill-Spec Compliant
Durable All Metal Construction, Not Plastic
Completely ESD Safe.
Engineered
& Manufactured in the U.S.A.
SPECIFICATIONS
Electrical Rating:
Model ZT-2-MIL-120:120
VAC (U.S., Canada & Mexico) Model ZT-2-MIL-230:230
VAC (International)
W
x H x D
6.25"
x 8" x 5.75", 16cm x 20cm x 15cm
WEIGHT
5lbs. 8oz.
TEMP
CONTROL
Closed Loop Control
With Zero Cross Switching Variable Temp Control
Dial
AIR FLOW SETTINGS
Variable, Adjustable Air Flow Dial;
With "Ultra-Light" for Tiny Chips