Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 01 10:25:54 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | All y'll: I could use your input on determining when to skim dross from a wave solder pot. | | | | | | On one hand, dross protects the surface of the solder from oxidation. On the other hand too much dross may affect solder joint quality. O
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 07 02:30:08 EDT 1998 | Bob Willis
| | No sour grapes, | | This has gone on too long. I expect no free advertising, nor do I seek it. It is clearly understood Bob is an industry leading consultant. What is not understood, at least by me, how he is allowed to "advertise" so freely on t
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 23 18:06:38 EST 2002 | jersbo
Tried and True is counting your components if there is any indication of loss... this is a great TOPIC... unfortunately there are many ways to lose components. Feeder setup,problems with a feeder while in the machine(IE mylar problems or wrong step)
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 24 07:22:19 EDT 2004 | cyber_wolf
I know I have posed this question before, but I would like to open this discussion again. We do several change overs through the course of three shifts on our CP642 line. When we start a new job, we have tons of tape feeder overlay problems.(The over
Electronics Forum | Thu May 26 15:28:41 EDT 2005 | jh0n!
It looks like there's another one or two threads somewhat similar, but allow me to pose another. We've only about two years experience in SMD production, and we're just starting to really ramp-up. As we stand right now, I'm not recieving informatio
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 22 08:57:08 EST 2005 | davef
Immersion metal baths also rely on alchemy-like magic. If you take a piece of copper and dip it into an aqueous solution of silver ions: Presto Chango! Within seconds the copper will be coated with silver. Of course, there is some additional magic re
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 13:26:19 EST 2006 | Tech
So you use the dogbone alignment jig and the 3mm allen wrench to break them apart. The dog bone alightment jig would keep the rest of the joints from breaking loose while you loosened the allen wrench. This is basically the same thing I described usi
Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 24 07:07:52 EDT 2007 | stefi
Hi, Thanks for the reply, The fiducial which posed problems is a 1 mm diameter gold plated circle fiducial. The problem with this is that the vision system sees it darker than the surrounding area. The surrounding area is all copper covered with th
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 31 18:46:40 EDT 2007 | rpadilla
Well, everyone has provided good advice, but if you are looking for a wave flux that can provide much better dwell times and consistent wetting throughout the hole fill, without making adjustments to your production process, I suggest going with Senj
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 11 17:04:33 EST 2007 | pgarsoe
We want to start a discussion on the solar manufacturing market in response to a conversation with Anita Brown of Indium at the recent Productronica show in Germany. Since we referred to it in our show report newsletter we decided to start a thread a