Electronics Forum | Sun Nov 10 15:36:06 EST 2013 | davef
Assuming your conformal coating material was selected with the intent of living a life in contact with oil, why doesn't your coating meet the IPC-A-610D requirement of that there be no voiding, no breaks in the surface, no loss of adhesion, etc? Furt
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 17 13:42:04 EST 2002 | robf
There are a few emerging technologies that have been growing in popularity for the past few years. Pin through paste, press fit connectors and selective soldering machines seem to be displacing custom fixtures. Most of the mixed technology boards o
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 30 16:26:45 EDT 2012 | rdouglass
Just curious if anyone else has trouble with the installation and inspection of DIMM Connectors (I know - these are through-hole parts!) We have boards with 240 pin DIMM connectors and occasionally a pin may not be properly aligned prior to press-f
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 07 11:14:11 EST 2000 | Adam
There is a variation on the pins that come through on the other side. The pins that are deforming are roughly half the size of those which aren't deformed.There are no witness marks on the pins that are deformed, suggesting that the pins aren't fouli
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 01 15:37:25 EDT 1998 | Ben Salisbury
| How would you mount a surface mount chip onto Perf board? I am doing a project for school and one of the chips is a surface mount, but everything else fits in Perf board. Any suggestions? Thanks Matt- Find some fairly stiff wire, the correct gau
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 27 17:24:34 EST 2003 | pauld
Forgive the non-SMT question. That's why I hate through hole boards. Has anyone ever used Bareco wax on pressfit connectors, and how do you produce a consistent process for its application? Any drawbacks? Background: We have found a design issue with
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 20 14:52:05 EDT 2000 | Bob Willis
If you are talking about Pin In Hole Reflow that is not true, I hope it was not my friends at Speedline that told you that. Stencil printing of paste for through hole reflow can be done. If you get all the parameters right it can give you joints lik
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 06 08:49:22 EDT 1999 | Mark
| | I hope that someone can help me with my problem! I am experiencing a lot of glued on parts falling off in the wave solder machine. A little information about my process: 1)We use Loctite 3609 glue that is used up long before its shelf life 2)Ou
Electronics Forum | Sun Aug 15 11:02:37 EDT 1999 | Jeff Ferry
| Ladies and Gentlemen, | | As a newly appointed DFM/CE "guru" here, one of my responsibilities has become repair (of course). As I have some knowledge of BGA repair/rework using semi-automated equipment, it naturally follows I would hav tremendous
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 10 09:03:52 EDT 1999 | ScottM
| | hi, i m college student. i m currently doing my Final year project in PCB drilling. the main task is to design auto feeder which allign the PCB properly in position before drilling take place. the close tolerance becomes a big problem to the prec
