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Starting a simple test job in RVplace goes and picks up
the rear right hand nozzle (#5?). I know I must have the right
nozzle in the tool holder as this is the largest nozzle and
won't fit into any other slot.

The head takes it to the fixed camera where I see a clean
vector drawn circle and then I get an error saying that
the nozzle might be worn, or the camera might be
dirty etc.

Looking at the calibrate menu the picture looks clean.

1) What aperture/iris setting are other people using on
their lens? Wide open, very closed or just in the middle?
This will affect depth of field as well as brightness so is
obviously important.
2) How high do people have the lens focussed before
calibration?
3) I seem to have (according to the drawing files)
nozzles 3,4 and 5.  #5 Appears to have the camera
tool insert (aluminium) in it. Should I remove this when
placing? Could that be the source of the error?

thanks.

I either need to purchase or make some nozzles as I now have an RV1S
but only 3 nozzles.
-  Does anyone have any drawings of these?
-  Are they specific to the Versatronics units or is there some
common standard?
- If neither of the above, would anyone be willing to measure
a set up?

I don't even know which 3 I have 

It was the one also listed here (here being 'elsewhere') on August 22.

I'm using a 217deg Multicore paste. If I follow the recommened
profile for the components then I get a really faint browning of
the board but I'm happy with that.

Using the same paste with the hot air rig (before I bought the
oven) I was having problems with the flux bubbling and popping
0402s off before the metal liquified and the surface tension
kicked in to hold it in place. I don't know why that was (and, no,
they weren't moving due to too much airflow! ;-) )

I was looking at cheap import PID controller but a friend of mine
pointed me to a UK supplier that are doing a 8 segment / 8 prog
unit for 60 odd quid.

At some point I'm going to have to upgrade the oven to a
much bigger unit if I want to get reasonable size panels from
the RV1S cooked evenly.

Just like to report that after seeing Mike's vid with the Sanyo oven
I tried something similar. I bought a VERY small oven with a top and
bottom element for £19 and controlled it by hand whilst monitoring
with a K-type probe. This oven has metal baffles around the elements
to, I guess, shield the IR radiation and encourage heating through
convection instead. Not sure if this is a good thing or not.
I'm not convinced my K-type probe is registering the same temerature
as the PCB and solder paste so will investigate further.

Hi all, as someone interested in but not yet in posession of one of these machines I'd like to ask a few Qs.

- Are there any things I should look carefully at when viewing a candidate purchase?

- Can either the top or bottom enclosure easily be taken off to make it more transportable?

- What happened to the order of spare nozzles earlier in the year, are there any left over?

- I understand that the RV1S doesn't have the flying camera. Does it still have a fid cam?

- Are there any .pdfs of manuals or other training material around on the 'net?

Thanks in advance. Hope that if I do get one of these I can contribute some
knowledge back to the forums as I solve problems.

Jason