Preheaters, Preheating, Convective Preheaters, Preheat,  PCB, SMD
PCB Hot Air Preheaters
PCB Design & Rework

 



All Zephyrtronics Equipment Is Designed, Engineered and
 
Made in the USA

27th Year Anniversary

Space Soldering

Hundreds of ZT-1 AirBaths™ Helped Make the International Space Station


 












Automatic Dispenser






 


 







Dispensing Needles, Dispensing Tips


Automatic Dispenser





 

 
PCB Rework Preheaters    Bottom-Side Pre-heating   SMD & SMT Ramp & Preheat     Lead-Free Pre-Heat Rework
The Originals! No One Knows More About PCB Preheating than Zephyrtronics With Our Trademark Pyramidal Designs!
The AIRBATH PREHEATING SYSTEMS
Your Truly High Quality Solution for SMD, BGA & PCB Lab Design, Rework & Repair & PCB Preheating. Featuring Our PostCoolers™
Bottom-Side Preheating at the Bench for PCB Rework & Repair of SMT, BGA, CSP, QFP & Thru-Hole Chips
ALL PRE-HEATERS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL.  THE WIDEST PRE-HEATING LINE ON EARTH!
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PCB Preheating, Printed Circuit Board Preheat, AirBath, Preheat,
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ZT-1-CLS-MIL AIRBATH, ANALOG
10 CFM of Forced Convection Air Volume: 285 Liters/Minute
• Affordable PCB Bottom Side Preheat. Far Superior to IR.
• PostCooling™ Feature. Ideal Pre-Heat for Lead-Free Work
• Analog Variable Temperature Control.
• Compact Footprint for Small to Mid-Size PCB Assemblies
• Bottom-Side Convective Mil-Spec PCB Pre-Heating
• Self-Contained Air Supply, ESD Safe & RoHS Compliant.
• 2° - 4°C Vital Industry Standard Temperature Ramp Rate.
• Lighted Indicators for Both Warm & Cool Modes

  Our Smallest Preheater, Still With Double the Air Volume
  of the Cheap, Import Imitations on the Market. Yes, Double!
 
 Our Compact, Deluxe Digital AirBath™ PCB Pre-Heat & PostCooler™ 15 CFM
 
 
ZT-1-CLS-DPU AIRBATH, DIGITAL
15 CFM Bountiful Forced Convection Air Volume 430 Liters/Min.
• 500 Watts of Preheat Power with PostCooler™
• Ideal Pre-Heat Boost for Lead-Free Applications
• Digital, Variable Closed Loop Temp Control With Digital Display!
• Compact Footprint for Small to Mid-Size PCB Assemblies
• MIL-SPEC  Bottom-Side Convective Pre-Heating
• Self-Contained Air Supply, ESD Safe & RoHS Compliant.
• 2° - 4°C Vital Industry Standard Temp Ramp  Rate.
• Lighted Indicators for Both Preheat-Warm & PostCool Modes
 
  Compact In Size, But What Power & Air Volume!
  Three Times the Air Volume As All Other Small Preheaters!

SMD Preheating, PC Board Preheat System
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Big LED Display (Not Hard-to-Read LCD)
Click for Photo More Details & Specs

 
 Analog Industrial AirBath™ PCB Pre-Heat : Powerful 25 CFM ! 800 Watt Power!
 
 
ZT-1-HIS-MIL AIRBATH, ANALOG
25CFM Powerful Forced Convection Air Volume 712 Liters/Min.
• 800 Watts of Preheat Power with PostCooler for quick cooling
• Ideal Pre-Heat Boost for Lead-Free Applications
• Two Pre-Heating Settings: 100C & 150C Bottom-Side Preheat
• For All PCB's, Small & Large with Ground Planes
• Self-Contained Air Supply & MIL-SPEC Bottom-Side Preheat
• Analog Closed Loop Temp Control ESD-Safe RoHS CompliantOur Number One Selling Pre-Heater!
• 2° - 4°C Vital Industry Standard Temp Ramp Rate. ESD Safe
• Lighted Indicators for Both Warm & Cool Modes

Quality Printed Circuit Board Preheat, Thermal Profile
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 Digital Industrial AirBath™ PCB Pre-Heat : Powerful 25 CFM ! 800 Watt Power!
 

World Famous ZT-1 AirBath Preheating System, PCB
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Big LED Display (Not Hard-to-Read LCD)
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ZT-1-HIS-DPU AIRBATH, DIGITAL
25 CFM Powerful Forced Convection Air Volume 712 Liters/Min.
• 800 Watts of Preheat Power with PostCooler™
• Ideal Pre-Heat Boost for Lead-Free Applications
• Digital, Variable Closed Loop Temp Control With Digital Display
• For All PCB's Small & Large with Ground Planes
• Self-Contained Air Supply & MIL-SPEC Bottom-Side Preheat
• 1st Choice of Commercial Electronic Firms! RoHS Compliant
• 2° - 4°C Vital Industry Standard Temp Ramp  Rate - ESD Safe
• Lighted Indicators for Both Warming & Cooling Modes
• Available in 120 Volt & 230 Volt Models
 
 BigGrid™ AirBath™ PCB Pre-Heat Series: Powerful 50 CFM ! 1,500 Watt Power!
 
 
ZT-1-BGS-MIL AIRBATH, ANALOG
• Extra-Large Forced Convection Preheat Grid 16sq in. /110sq cm
• 50 CFM Super Powerful Air Volume  (1,415 Liters/Minute)
• 1,500 Watts of Preheating Power with PostCooler™
• Analog Variable Closed Loop Temp Control Bottom Preheat
• For All PCB's Small & Large with Ground Planes
• Self-Contained Air Supply & MIL-SPEC Bottom-Side Preheat
• First Choice of Aerospace & High End Firms! RoHS Compliant
• 2° - 4°C Vital Industry Standard Temp Ramp  Rate - ESD Safe
• Lighted Indicators for Both Warm & Cool Modes
• Available in 120 Volt & 230 Volt Models

Preheat, Big, Large PCB, Powerful Preheat

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 BigGrid™ AirBath™ PCB Pre-Heat Series: Powerful 50 CFM ! 1,500 Watt Power!
ZT-1-BGS-DPU AIRBATH, DIGITAL
• Extra-Large Forced Convection Preheat Grid 16sq in./110sq cm
• 50 CFM Super Powerful Air Volume  (1,415 Liters/Minute)
• 1,500 Watts of Preheating Power with PostCooler™
• Digital, Variable Closed Loop Temp Control With Digital Display
• For All PCB's Small & Large with Ground Plane
• Self-Contained Air Supply & MIL-SPEC Bottom-Side Preheat
• 1st Choice of Aerospace & High End Firms! RoHS Compliant.
• 2° - 4°C Vital Industry Standard Temp Ramp  Rate - ESD Safe
• Lighted Indicators for Both Warm & Cool Modes
• Available in 120 Volt & 230 Volt Models 

                                              PCB Preheat, Ramping, Thermal Ramp, AirBath   

Big LED Display (Not Hard-to-Read LCD)Click Photo for More Details & Specs

 MegaGrid™ AirBath™ PCB Pre-Heat Series: Powerful 50 CFM & 1,500 Watt Power!

Powerful SMD, BGA, Hot Air, Preheater, Huge PCB
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Big LED Display (Not Hard-to-Read LCD)
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ZT-1-MGS-DPU AIRBATH, DIGITAL Gigantic! 
• Giant Forced Convection Preheating Grid 32 sq in. /220 sq cm 
• 50 CFM Super Powerful Air Volume  (1,415 Liters/Minute)
• 1,500 Watts of Preheating Power with PostCooler™
• Digital, Variable Closed Loop Temp Control With Digital Display
• For All PCB's Small & Large with Ground Planes
• Self-Contained Air Supply & MIL-SPEC Bottom-Side Preheat
• 1st Choice of Aerospace & High End Firms! RoHS Compliant.
• 2° - 4°C Vital Industry Standard Temp Ramp  Rate - ESD Safe
• Lighted Indicators for Both Warm & Cool Modes
• Available in 120 Volt & 230 Volt Models
 
  Solutions: Soldering & De-Soldering Thru-Hole Connectors & Components
 
 
The ZT-6-MIL & PC/104 AIRFOUNTAIN® 
• Dual Purpose Bottom-Side Preheating & PCB Full Solder Reflow
• Rapid, High-Volume Connector & IC Removal
Far Cleaner Than Messy Solder Fountain And Solder Pots
• Self-Contained Air Supply. Exceeds IPC connector specs!
MIL-Spec Compliant, ESD-Safe, RoHS Compliant
• PC/104 Simultaneous Reflows All 104 Pins in Seconds! PC/104+
• Eliminates Hand Soldering Gold Tails in Production
• Essential, Secondary Soldering Operation Station
• Used by the U.S. Military, Boeing and High Reliability Concerns
• Available in 120 Volt & 230 Volt Models

Soldering Connectors
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Big LED Display (Not Hard-to-Read LCD)
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Zephyrtronics® AirBaths Receive Industry Recognition

SMT Magazine, Repair
"Innovative...simpler, safer way to remove and repair sensitive devices" --  Editorial Staff, SMT MAGAZINE

Raytheon Report, Low Temperature Rework
Aerospace 108 page Report Zephyrtronics AirBath™: "Given the advantages of lower temperatures for rework and  results of this evaluation, use of this method and material for reworking SMT and difficult through-hole boards is recommended."

Vision Award, Best Product
Zephyrtronics Wins the Prestigious Vision Award for  "Best New Product" at 1996 Surface Mount International Expo in Silicon Valley.

NASA, PCB, Rework
The Zephyrtronics’ AirBath “bathes the circuit board in warm air to reduce thermal stresses to the board and its components.”
-- NASA Report, Jan.
'04

Surface Mount Technology, Preheat
The Zephyrtronics
 AirBath™ Preheater
is Featured in
Ray Prasad's Text
"Surface Mount
 Technology"

 
How Zephyrtronics Forever Changed the Way PCB's Are Made in the 1990's.

After the 1996 market introduction of their AirBath invention, Zephyrtronics received international recognition for its significant contribution to the electronic production world.

For the first time in electronic manufacturing history, someone had finally addressed the most glaring discrepancy between the high quality, high volume production reflow processes and those typically found at the bench where prototyping, low-volume runs, rework or repair tasks are performed. Yes, we pioneered it.

Long missing at the electronic work bench were the already long-established procedures like proper thermal profiling, ramping, preheating, low temp reflow and the cool down of the PCB yielding simply terrible results. Zephyrtronics changed that.  And no one still knows preheating better than we do.

 

The arrival of Zephyrtronics' first AirBath caused an immediate buzz within electronic manufacturing circles as word quickly spread about this amazingly simple, yet highly engineered little marvel and the dynamic quality it could produce.  By 1997, the Editorial Staff of SMT MAGAZINE had witnessed the fever and singled out only three companies for the "noteworthy products" of 1997 writing, "Zephyrtronics' AirBath device for preheating is innovative....it's sensible approach should win it a place as a simpler, safer way to remove and repair sensitive devices."

Today, all these many years later, even as Zephyrtronics consistently draws the largest crowds at industry trade events, we remain just as committed to our scientific and comprehensive approach to the electronic bench. And, yes, our motto still is Simplicity Through Innovation™

THE WORLD-FAMOUS AIRBATH PCB PRE-HEATING SYSTEMS

Description

Model & Power Specs

Price

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Prototyping Preheater
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ZT-1-CLS-MIL AIRBATH, ANALOG
(10 CFM AIR VOLUME)

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ZT-1-CLS-MIL
(120 Volt For the U.S.A., Canada & Mexico)

$495.00


Rework Preheater
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ZT-1-CLS-DPU AIRBATH, DIGITAL
(15 CFM AIR VOLUME)

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ZT-1-CLS-DPU
(120 Volt For the U.S.A., Canada & Mexico)

$795.00


BGA Preheat
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ZT-1-HIS-MIL AIRBATH, ANALOG
(25 CFM AIR VOLUME)

MORE DETAILS

ZT-1-HIS-MIL
(120 Volt For the U.S.A., Canada & Mexico)

$1,295.00


PCB Preheater, SMD Preheat
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ZT-1-HIS-DPU AIRBATH, DIGITAL
(25 CFM AIR VOLUME)

MORE DETAILS

ZT-1-HIS-DPU-120
(120 Volt For the U.S.A., Canada & Mexico)

$1,395.00


ZT-1-HIS-DPU-230
(230 Volt For All International Customers)

$1,395.00


Convective Preheater
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ZT-1-BGS-MIL AIRBATH, ANALOG
(50 CFM AIR VOLUME)

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ZT-1-BGS-MIL-120
(120 Volt For the U.S.A., Canada & Mexico)

$2,150.00


ZT-1-BGS-MIL-230
(230 Volt For All International Customers)

$2,150.00


Bottom Side Preheat
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ZT-1-BGS-DPU AIRBATH, DIGITAL
(50 CFM AIR VOLUME)

MORE DETAILS

ZT-1-BGS-DPU-120
(120 Volt For the U.S.A., Canada & Mexico)

$2,250.00


ZT-1-BGS-DPU-230
(230 Volt For All International Customers)

$2,250.00


Large PCB Preheater
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ZT-1-MGS-DPU AIRBATH, DIGITAL
(50 CFM AIR VOLUME)

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ZT-1-MGS-DPU-120
(120 Volt For the U.S.A., Canada & Mexico)

$3,850.00


ZT-1-MGS-DPU-230
(230 Volt For All International Customers)

$3,850.00


PC 104 Connector
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ZT-6 AIRFOUNTAIN®
(DUAL FUNCTION STATION
WARM PREHEATING
 & HOT AIR REFLOW)


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ZT-6
(120 Volt For the U.S.A., Canada & Mexico)

$9,850.00

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ABC ADJUSTABLE BOARD CRADLES™ & “ENFANT” SERIES PCB FIXTURES

Model

Description

Price

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Adjustable Board Cradle
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for Greater Detail
& Specs

ABC-1

ADJUSTABLE BOARD CRADLE
3-Rail (10” X 18” Max) With
 4 Posts & Non-Skid Feet

$345.00


ABC-2

ADJUSTABLE BOARD CRADLE
3-
Rail (20” X 18” Max)  With
4 Posts & Non-Skid Feet

$395.00


ABC-TT

TINY BOARD CRADLE
3-
Rail (8.5” X 13” Max)  With
4 Posts & Non-Skid Feet

$345.00


 Small PCB Board Cradle
Click Photo for Greater Detail & Specs

ABC-1-Q

ADJUSTABLE BOARD CRADLE 4 Track
QUATRO (10” X 18” Max)  With
4 Posts & Non-Skid Feet

$395.00


ABC-2-Q

ADJUSTABLE BOARD CRADLE 4 Track
QUATRO (20” X 18” Max)
 With
4 Posts & Non-Skid Feet

$425.00


ABC-TQ

TINY BOARD CRADLE 4 Track
QUATRO (8.5” X 13” Max)
 With
4 Posts & Non-Skid Feet

$395.00


 
OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES

Description

Model

Price

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EXTRA / REPLACEMENT POSTS (Set of 4)
2-Post & 8-Post Positioning
(8 Posts Allow PCB & ABC to Be Flipped Up & Down During Thru-Hole Desoldering)

ABC-LG

$69.00


“Z” HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT POSTS (SET OF 4)

ABC-ZP

$149.00


 
   

   
 

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