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Heatguns are often used to strip PCBs
Steinel makes good “prosumer” grade heat guns as well as some industrial ones - Ordered List Item
As long as the PCB is heated evenly and kept below soldering temperatures it should not produce too much fumes. However, even still it will produce some and you should be prepared in case it heats unevenly and begins to smoke. There are a lot of small units for soldering availible, this page is about larger units that can handle potentially larger fume amounts from a heat gun
PACE
Tabletop fume extractors. Seem to be popular, I will likely get one of these (probably (EVAC-200) as there is good documetnation and looks like its easy to find an purchase filters for them
Models:
Arm-Evac 1: one of these on eBay…looks like it has power and an on/off switch. Probably basic first generation unit
Arm-Evac 50: vacuum cleaner like unit
Arm-Evac 105: small ducted unit
Arm-Evac 200: larger ducted unit. Seems to be pretty popular
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120VAC, 60Hz 3 Amps 230VAC, 50Hz 1.38 Amps
Two 75mm (3“) dia inlets
General purpose filter: Single Inlet: 288 m3/h (170 cfm); Dual Inlet: 170 m3/h (100 cfm) per inlet
Cleanroom filter: Single Inlet: 255 m3/h (150 cfm); Dual Inlet: 135 m3/h (80 cfm) per inlet
58 dBA
Comparable to Hakko HJ3100
“for 1-4 workstations”
Arm-Evac 250: like the 200 but with bells and whistles like filter change alarm
Arm-Evac 300: gray unit that looks a little different than the others
Arm-Evac 400:
Evac 500: has 3 feeds instead of 2 like the other units and of course more CFM
Arm-Evac 1200
Lab-Evac 150: kind of a mini fume hood for a fume extracted workstation
Hakko
HJ3100
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115VAC - 50/60 Hz, 3.5a, 350W
One Port: 100CFM (169 cu.m/h)
Two Ports: 180CFM (305 cu.m/h)
58dB
11(W) x 9(D) x 18(H) in.
Approx. 18 lbs. (8.16 kgs)
Ace Industries
Mixonix
Airfiltronix
Models:
* Scavenger HS3000
Cygnus
Cygnus Production Industries Fumex Model F001C 115V 3.5A60Hz 1PH Fume Extractor
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