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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>
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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>Reducing Reflow Product Changeover Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 Presentation at SMT Long Island on how to reduce the changeover time from one reflow profile recipe to another.  If you ever opened up your reflow oven to dump all its heat to lessen downtime, this 4 min video is for you!!! To view the complete video series (click here). To subscribe to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thermocouple Attachment Results are in!</title>
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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>Why are you replacing BGAs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian O&#39;Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a great post today in Circuitnet titled &#8220;BGA Replacement Limits,&#8221; that can be found under Circuitmart.  Panelists answer the following question: How many times can a BGA component be replaced at the same location on the same PCB and retain reliability? Mark McMeen of STI Electronics suggests that the answer may be as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMT related Links to know</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian O&#39;Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RSS feeds, Tweets, blogs and newsletters, how do you keep up?   Well here is the latest on what&#8217;s available in the SMT industry.   I subscribe to all of these newsletters and regularly pick out areas of interest related to profiling for you.   I also comb the blogs though I only know of two, not including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing Silicon Solar Efficiency Manufacturing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian O&#39;Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Solar Technology printed an article on Sept 16, 2009 highlighting an exciting ground breaking study that shows by optimizing the profile during the wafer firing process, a significant gain of .51% is achievable.  .51% is HUGE, which can easily translate into hundreds of thousands of dollars in increased revenues per solar manufacturing line.  That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thermocouple Attachment Discussion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian O&#39;Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phil Zarrow and Jim Hall of ITM Consulting have a very good piece on TC attachment on Board Talk hosted by Circuitmart.com. In their first session, they talk about permanent TC attachment, such as high temp solder and epoxy (click here for a link to their recording).  Yours truly left a comment with the boys: [...]]]></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>
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		<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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		<link>http://profilingguru.com/reflow/profiling-bga-webinar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Profiling BGA Webinar Supplemental (July 1, 2009): Component Specific Specs We discussed the need to define BGA specs separate from other components that have different reflow requirements.   BGAs typically require more heat to reflow properly but typically there are many other &#8220;smaller&#8221; components that also populate a PCB that will overheat if you develop your [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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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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