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Features/Benefits

See what nitrogen can do in your wave soldering process.

Benefits of Nitrogen for Wave Soldering

  • Reduced oxygen in the soldering atmosphere leads to a reduction in solder joint defects such as shorts and icicles
  • Improved solder wetting = increased plated through hole top side fillet with greater wetting force and decreased wetting time
  • Enables implementation of no clean flux processes, reducing the volume of flux per board and allowing the use of less active flux chemistry
  • Dramatic reduction in dross formation = less cleaning, reduced equipment maintenance expense, reduced material cost, and increased productivity
  • Minimization of solder ball formation
  • Wider process window and increased uptime

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