The K5000 at a glance
With the patented jet wave solder pump with linear motor and the consequent concentration on a single counter flow hollow jet wave, KIRSTEN has revolutionized the PCB soldering process in the last few years. Sceptics as well as defenders of double wave concepts have been convinced with excellent soldering results achieved in the practice. Today, over 3,000 installations with the "thinking" KIRSTEN hollow jet wave are in successful operation worldwide. The K5000 is still the only machine in the market, which successfully solders conventional throughput components as well as SMD's with the fast flowing and extremely flexible single hollow jet wave, economically, technically perfect and neat.

Versality
The new soldering widths available are 190 mm (7.5"), 360 mm (14.25") and 500 mm (19.7"). All soldering systems of the new K5000 generation in 360 mm and 500 mm widths can be adapted to your individual production needs, either as a shuttle or as a throughput models

Economy and Ecology, all in one
The machines of the new generation are all equipped with a power saving mode, which means that when the machine is not actually soldering, the power consumption is reduced to 15 % of the programmed values. Within 15 seconds, all elements are back into operation mode. The preheater uses a very efficient and economic hot air circulation system, that is so efficient that optional top side preheating (e.g. for multilayer boards) are becoming obsolete. The oil filter system has interchangeable mesh wire sieves, which can be very easily cleaned by simple rinsing.

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User friendly handling
The solder pot / pump and the oil container are completely separated and can individually be pulled out laterally on rails, which means easy access for maintenance even in hot condition. The wave height can be adjusted stepless up to its maximum of 25 mm. The set height is shown in 1-mm steps on the digital display.

The linear pump motor
The motor is flanged to the outside of the solder pot (pump) and separated from the solder by a diamagnetic titanium sheet. The energy transfer is purely inductive. In the stator, a magnetic field is created, travelling in pump direction. The magnet field circle is closed by the bottom of the solder pot. The solder in the pump channels acts like a short cut secondary winding of a transformer, with respective high circle current. The exchange effect between magnet fieleds and induced currents creates the necessary pump force action for the wave in the solder pot. The even distribution of the pressure over the whole width of the wave is done by the patented arrangement of a multiple of parallely working pumps (e.g. 12 for 360 mm soldering width).The motor, according to the pump arrangement, is also segmented and the spaces in the stator allow for the respective cooling of the motor. An auxiliary pump, working parallely with the main pump, serves to refill the main solder pot out of the integrated reserve basin.