Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 03 01:15:03 EDT 2020 | kylehunter
> I hacked machine to only spend nitrogen when > solder pump is on, this made about 80% save when > you count in frame change, fluxing and operator > slacking Hah! I was thinking of doing just that. What'd you use to trigger the sol
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 22 23:27:09 EDT 2003 | severs
By "hacking" do you mean altering the performance of the board or something else? This reminds me of something I saw a while back. Better termed counterfeiting than hacking, it may have some relevance to what your friend is trying to do. The probl
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 06 21:21:48 EST 2002 | davef
DeltaScan, a Teradyne fixture-less tester coarsely comparable to HP TestJet, eh? Er, wazzat what Milo [contact programmer at CTU on 24] used to hack into the key card that Richard Walsh [CTU honcho shot dead at Dupont plaza] gave to Jack [this is go
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 10 17:44:22 EDT 2003 | davef
Q1: Can they be masked so parylene doesn't get underneath? A1: Your parylene applyer may be able to mask area, but in general no. This stuff is cured in a vacuum chamber to make sure that it gets into every past corner. Q2: How do you remove and re
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 22 22:19:16 EDT 2003 | Dean
Questions: 1. Is this a retail product sold as PCB only? Or is this in a finished chassis / case (like an external modem)? 2. Are the customers damaging only the BGA devices? Like prying them up with a screw driver? What? You can dam and fill
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 24 20:04:44 EDT 2003 | Michel Moninger
http://www.mgchemicals.com/products/832.html Loctite makes a version too, if I recall. Designed to be tamper evident, but yes, rework is a bear. We had similar results using one of Lord Chemical's urethane potting compounds. It was a filled black fi
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 19 17:09:11 EDT 2020 | jmelson
The Eclipse really looks like it would do everything I'm doing now very well. I'm not too clear on how well the laser/1D vision would work for QFN parts, but maybe it would be fine. The downside is I think these machines are now going to be hard to
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 21 20:22:20 EDT 2022 | kumarb
then would crash everytime. Not to give up, started to experiment with the markers inside the vios text file. The hack was to remove the MARK fields inside the file. After this, saw the component layout in the GUI PCB view with proper references. S
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 11 18:01:26 EST 2003 | russ
Tim, I cannot remember what model our T.D. wave was it was a small unit about 8 ft. long "tabletop" is what I call them. In keeping up with this thread I noticed a lot of T.D. support. So, I decided to backtrack and review history with my previous pe
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 22 16:09:15 EDT 2003 | Joe
Help Please! A friend of mine works for this company (a novice in the hardware world), they are thinking about covering their PCBAs with Epoxy (don't know what) so to prevent hackers from damaging their PCBAs - they claim it is costing them too much