Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 22 16:10:35 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
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 19 19:14:07 EST 2007 | jmelson
I've been running 90% lead-free (still have a couple components I can't get reliably in RoHS compliance) with a peak temp of about 238 C, on standard FR-4 boards. The only real problem is the pad adherence is compromised, making rework of the boards
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 19 15:03:15 EDT 2020 | jmelson
OK, I am really happy with the robustness of my CSM84. I wonder how hard it would be to hack up one of these 3-phase machines to run off single-phase power? Mostly, it just feeds a big DC supply for the X-Y servos. 2 heads with ANE should be just FI
Electronics Forum | Sun May 21 09:38:25 EDT 2006 | davef
Epoxy Removal and IC Delidding [Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty, Chapter 14] Encapsulation of critical components using epoxy or other adhesives is commonly done to prevent tampering and device access (the microprocessor shown
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 18 03:52:57 EDT 2000 | Jeff Sanchez
Dave, I will take a stab at this. Haveing not had the opertunity to be stuck in such a jam. I would take a piece a aluminum and cut out a whole the size of the shield.The aluminum plate should be the size of the board or larger. Use stand offs to
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 15 12:37:51 EDT 1999 | Wolfgang Busko
| | Does anyone know the best way to program my Camelot glue dispenser off line? I really like the machine, it just takes me too long to program it. We do contract work so I can get gerber data for all (most) of my assemblies. I need to get these p
Electronics Forum | Mon May 24 13:33:46 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| We are running a number of boards with 8-10 25 mil PQFPs on board. Our process is mature with at least 3 years experiance and statistically few opens on the QFPs. Our beloved purchasing department has chased the almighty $ and changed FAB vendor
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 04 21:12:34 EST 2022 | mnyut
After I pointed out at the end of November 2018 that here at SMTnet passwords are stored in plain text (https://smtnet.com/Forums/index.cfm?fuseaction=view_thread&CFApp=1&Thread_ID=21588&FromArchive=yes), and they still are, this site was now apparen
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Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 23 12:30:52 EDT 1999 | Wolfgang Busko
| | | | | I am attemping to gather as much information on the issues with and progress in solutions for manufacturing Pb free products in response to European initiatives (WEEE). I am intereested in component issues with As Made lead terminations (n
