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	<itunes:summary>Profiling for Reflow Ovens made Simple.  Brought to you by the Profiling Gurus!</itunes:summary>
	<itunes:author>Brian O&#039;Leary</itunes:author>
	<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
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		<title>Tips on Cooking Both a Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey and a PCB</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does it take half a day to cook a Thanksgiving turkey?  The answer is simple ― you have 20 lb of bird that simply cannot just be nuked in a microwave like last night’s dinner.  If not properly thawed, prepared and monitored, you either have an overcooked, dried-out bird or worse: Salmonella. Strangely enough, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Profiling Guide</title>
		<link>http://profilingguru.com/featured/2011-profiling-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian O&#39;Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The popular Profiling Guide is back with this second edition. I&#8217;ve added a new section on profiling for Wave with the help of two solder wave gurus Mike Young of Aligned Solutions and Dave Nixon of Ayrshire Electronics. Also a contributor is Ed Briggs of Indium who provides profiling solutions to common reflow defects such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thermocouple Attachment Results are in!</title>
		<link>http://profilingguru.com/reflow/measure/thermocouple-attachment-results-are-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian O&#39;Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rochester Institute of Technology under the guidance of Dr. S. Manian Ramkumar Ph.D. just conducted (October 2009) the most comprehensive study to date on thermocouple attachment methods.  Part I of II was to determine the most accurate and reliable method of thermocouple attachment.  Part II that has yet to be released is to determine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Ways to Reduce your Reflow Oven&#8217;s Power Consumption</title>
		<link>http://profilingguru.com/reflow/four-ways-to-reduce-your-reflow-ovens-power-consumption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian O&#39;Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are you paying annually in electricity to run your reflow oven?  Not taking into account indirect costs, surcharges, taxes and added wear and tear of running your oven hotter and harder, you might be paying anywhere from $6-8K per line.   This number is based off a study conducted at Flextronics Poland, where they pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non Destructive BGA Profiling Test #1</title>
		<link>http://profilingguru.com/reflow/measure/non-destructive-bga-profiling/</link>
		<comments>http://profilingguru.com/reflow/measure/non-destructive-bga-profiling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian O&#39;Leary</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://profilingguru.com/?p=429</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am currently investigating a non destructive method of BGA profiling that is reliable.  Here are the results of my first test. Set Up: Four thermocouples are attached to the same BGA (TOP, SIDE, INSIDE and BOTTOM surface), as pictured below.  Conductive aluminium double sided tape is used along with Kapton.  A KIC Explorer is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Reflow Process Inspection?</title>
		<link>http://profilingguru.com/reflow/what-is-reflow-process-inspection/</link>
		<comments>http://profilingguru.com/reflow/what-is-reflow-process-inspection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian O&#39;Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflow Process Inspection is catching on as the next advancement in-line inspection systems for SMT Reflow.   I have pulled together the various aspects of RPI to better explain how it works and what are its benefits. How does RPI fit into the inspection processes in the SMT factory? Unlike SPI and AOI that are defect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soldering and Profiling Discussion Panel at Apex 2009</title>
		<link>http://profilingguru.com/reflow/soldering-and-profiling-discussion-panel/</link>
		<comments>http://profilingguru.com/reflow/soldering-and-profiling-discussion-panel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian O&#39;Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Panelists at APEX discuss misconceptions about the reflow process and how to Minimize Delta Ts, etc.]]></description>
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		<title>Reading your Profile via Profile software</title>
		<link>http://profilingguru.com/reflow/reading-your-profile-via-profile-software/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian O&#39;Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s take a close look at the profiling graph and the specifications used to create the graph. The Solder Paste Library of your profiling software provides several choices: Maximum Slope Between Temperatures Maximum Rising Slope (Ramp Rate) Maximum Falling Slope (Cooling Rate) Preheat Soak Time Above Liquidus (TAL) Reflow Peak Maximum Exit Temperature For some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Establish the “First” Profile for a New Product</title>
		<link>http://profilingguru.com/reflow/how-to-establish-the-%e2%80%9cfirst%e2%80%9d-profile-for-a-new-product/</link>
		<comments>http://profilingguru.com/reflow/how-to-establish-the-%e2%80%9cfirst%e2%80%9d-profile-for-a-new-product/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian O&#39;Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clever profiling software will calculate a profile based on the size of your PCB or from dummy profiles already loaded on the Reflow oven. It is part of the prediction utility of your profiling software or pre-installed on your reflow oven. This software mines prior work, including your own profiles developed from other products or, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Configuration of the Graph &#124; Reflow Process</title>
		<link>http://profilingguru.com/reflow/configuration-of-the-graph-reflow-process/</link>
		<comments>http://profilingguru.com/reflow/configuration-of-the-graph-reflow-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian O&#39;Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The profile graph will tell you whether or not your process is within spec and that your reflow oven is creating the correct profile, nothing more. Double check your set-up again before diving into your profile. The information from the graph must be &#8220;true.&#8221; There are dozens of software packages that mostly render the same [...]]]></description>
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