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The Asus X555L is a low budget laptop that came out in May of 2015. The model depicted in these guides is X555LA-SI305041, an Intel Core i3 laptop designed to be affordable for consumers. Similar model numbers: X555LB, X555LD, X555LF, X555LI, X555LJ, X555LN, and X555LP

What temperature should I use for desoldering a component?

I need to replace a mosfet on my motherboard. I have my hot air gun at 380c and 35% airflow. the MOSFET isn't coming off

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MOSFETS got a high surface that allows to dissipate the temperature. That process will be tricky also because of usage of non-PB solder. 380C set would be ~330-340 effective heat on the component, which is barely enough to solder, and way to low for desoldering such heat dissipating element. Be careful thou, because glass-resin PCBs likes to boil at higher temps, which is deadly for multi-layer ones like in laptops. Consider pre-heating whole PCB with a heatbed or just the area around the component with air gun.

What I would do:

  1. Lots of lots of flux.
  2. Add solder tin with PB using your iron to lower the melting temperature - especially at the gate/ground/NC-radiator-pin (whatever it is the largest surface)
  3. Take away most of the tin
  4. Reapply flux. Lots.
  5. Heat it up with air ~400-420 should be fine if you would be fast.

Good luck!

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Cranking the heat to 420c and heating the area worked. Thank you very much.

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