A flood lamp sized for a bench sample rarely scales cleanly to a full production panel — intensity that felt more than adequate on a 2-inch test coupon can leave the edges of an 8-inch board under-cured, and nobody notices until a field failure traces back to a shadow zone that was never actually inside the curing field. Incure’s F-Series™ spans six models specifically so curing area and intensity can be matched to the part instead of guessed at.
Six Models Across Three Form Factors
F400 and F500 are portable handheld units — a 3.15 lb removable lamp head with no fixed installation, suited to bench-top or field curing where the part moves to the lamp rather than the reverse. F100 and F200 are compact bench-mount systems with a simple rocker-switch standby mode and an elapsed-hour meter, no programmable timer required. F200P adds a full LCD digital keypad with programmable timed exposure and adjustable intensity to the same compact form factor and curing area as F200. F900P is the large-area programmable model, driven by four 600W metal halide lamps across a 16″×12″ curing field — wide enough to be mounted on a conveyor system for continuous in-line curing rather than used as a standalone batch station.
Curing Area and Intensity Trade Against Each Other
The highest per-point intensity in the range is F500 at 590 mW/cm² UVA at 2.0 inches, but that output is delivered over a comparatively small 5″×5″ parabolic field. F900P covers more than six times that area at 16″×12″, but per-point intensity drops to 350 mW/cm² to do it — the same total lamp energy is spread across a much larger field rather than concentrated on one spot. Neither number is better in the abstract; a small, high-intensity part benefits from F500’s concentrated output, while a full PCB panel or large assembled part needs F900P’s coverage even at the lower per-point figure, since a gap in the curing field is a harder failure to catch than lower intensity across an area that’s fully covered.
F400 vs. F500 — Wattage Sets the Intensity Ceiling
F400 and F500 share the same 5″×5″ curing area, the same 3.15 lb head, and roughly the same 2,000-hour bulb life — the difference is lamp wattage. F400’s 400W arc lamp delivers 490 mW/cm², while F500 steps up to a 600W lamp and 590 mW/cm², the highest irradiance in the F-Series™ range. F400 additionally supports an optional focused 5″×3″ reflector for a tighter 240 mW/cm² field at 3.0 inches; that reflector isn’t compatible with F500’s higher-wattage lamp.
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Wavelength Coverage and Intensity Control
Every F-Series™ model emits UVA and UVB. F400 adds Visible 420 nm and 460 nm coverage; F500 and F200P add Visible 420 nm; F900P covers the full UVA, UVB, and visible range across its four-lamp array — worth checking against a specific adhesive’s photoinitiator absorption peak before assuming any two models are interchangeable on wavelength alone, the same matching logic that applies when selecting a UV flood lamp for conformal coating curing. Intensity control splits along the same line as programmability: F400 and F500 use a standby rocker switch that halves lamp power at idle to extend bulb life between cycles, while F200P and F900P offer full LCD-adjustable intensity with programmable timed exposure — F900P additionally supports fully programmable automated sequences for a line that needs repeatable dose without an operator resetting the timer each cycle.
Pairing With a Cure Chamber
F400, F500, and F200P are compatible with Incure’s B500 UV cure chamber; F900P pairs with the larger B201 chamber. Enclosing the flood lamp inside a chamber improves dose uniformity and eliminates stray UV exposure outside the intended curing field — directly relevant if a batch cure has been producing inconsistent results, a symptom Incure covers in detail in why a UV cure chamber stops delivering a uniform dose.
Where the F-Series™ Fits
Batch curing of UV conformal coatings, underfill encapsulants, and bonding adhesives across full PCB panels favors the wider bench-mount and large-area models, where uniform irradiance across the whole board matters more than peak intensity at a single point. Lens and prism assembly, filter lamination, and fiber optic bonding benefit from flood exposure eliminating the shadow zones a spot lamp like Incure’s S20™ arc spot lamp would leave on a part with complex geometry — flood and spot aren’t competing technologies so much as different tools for different bond-line shapes. Batch curing of UV dome coatings, potting compounds, and conformal coatings on assembled parts uses the adjustable working distance on the compact and portable models to tune dose per substrate geometry, while F900P’s conveyor-mountable format extends the same flood-cure logic into continuous in-line production alongside equipment like Incure’s CDM™ UV conveyor.
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