Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 13 21:52:16 EST 2003 | davef
Haaaaaa!!!! You contractors get all the fun don't ya??? Consider: * Replacing the balls on the corners of the devices with balls composed of a "hard solder", yano something like 90/10. * Shimming to prevent excessive collapse of a heavy BGA during
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 31 18:08:34 EDT 2008 | m79d
thank you both for the input ok so i understand the hole is on a 5mmx5mm center the pin seems to be 3mm. About 3mm of the board goes under the clamp rail so the tooling strip must be wider than 5mm as the fiducial also needs to be on it. Mark_m yo
Electronics Forum | Thu May 14 22:45:46 EDT 2009 | davef
You're correct. It's a peculiar looking defect. With measling, we expect to see discrete white spots or crosses just below the surface of the base material. We don't see that here. We do see a similar condition at almost every PTH in the picture, a
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 29 18:52:53 EST 2010 | cusackmusic
We bought an Ersa Hotflow 5 used a few years ago as a backup. Well, we needed a backup a few days ago, and it didn't back us up. When I turned it on, the screen on the machine is blank, and two buttons with an up and down arrow seem to turn on two
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 21 11:07:39 EST 2015 | jfuess
Hello all, I have recenetly come into possesion of a used Hotflow 5 oven and I'm trying to get it running. Unfortunatly the LCD/Keypad has been damaged and although it still works, some of the buttons don't function and the LCD has lines through i
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 23 12:49:47 EDT 1999 | Tony
| There is a practise within the industry of an Inspector inspecting a board, and that same Inspector performing touch-up. My opinion is that the Inspection and Touch-up operations should be separate functions whereby the Inspector is not performing
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 25 01:24:34 EST 1998 | Steve Gregory
Dave, I confess I was a tad too general and a bit too extreme describing the way ALL solder joints look on palladium coated leads. I should been more specific about the "pillow-effect". I've seen it regularly with palladium coated leads on small SOT
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 21 12:19:58 EST 2005 | DannyJ
Hi Mark, We're not doing anything too fancy. We have a couple of programs that do assist us, but in all reality, they are mainly front-ends for a database. The first is a program called Global Shops that we use for our inventory. This is based o
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 01 21:26:51 EDT 2014 | proy
We are a smaller company and have created our own systems using FilemakerPro, and it grows and evolves with us as we constantly improve it. Filemaker is a complete relational database system wrapped up WITH the tools to create your user interface -
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 19 16:02:20 EDT 2012 | davef
Hi Phil ... Here's a response from Heller Industries ... If I understand correctly you want to tight the tolerance window between set point and present value. Actually you can do so by lower down the warning band to 5C which is default 15C. Please