Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 16 14:51:15 EST 2004 | blnorman
It's driven by those highly technically astute politicians in Europe. IPC has a lead-free forum you can subscribe to and almost to a person in the forum agrees that elimination of lead in solder is assinine. From the automotive end of electronics
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 21 02:02:54 EST 2005 | JSS
First of all THANKS for thr reply. I totally agree with u that paste dried,stencil aperture clogged like probs comes during the production but we hv a visual inspection stage (with 5X illuminated lamp)after printing process and before inserting the
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 08 08:35:44 EDT 2005 | Grant
Hi, What are you doing for reflow. Sounds like a cheap MYDATA TP machine second hand might do the trick, but don't know if it could do 0201 though. You can get a fairly ok manual stencil printer that might do the trick. We had one that had a linear
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 22 19:43:14 EDT 2005 | BTaylor
I agree with steve. With so many vendors advertising to be the best, it is critical to have a "real time" demonstration on your product. Take a few good boards and a few defect boards along with the necessary data to the demo. Don't allow any prog
Electronics Forum | Tue May 31 11:28:21 EDT 2005 | ve7khz
Thanks fellows, appreciate the input. For those of you who have experience with various machines, what are some of the pros/cons of these? What seems to be readily available are Assembleon Topaz/Emerald and Panasonic MSF, MVA etc. I don't know thing
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 12 10:14:29 EDT 2005 | Rob
The Advantis with a lightning head is less accurate at chipshooting than a Fuji CP643. That's progress? Yes it is a great platform for it's space & yes it is a good all in one package, and the IC aacuracy is far better than stated. But you run o
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 05 17:16:01 EDT 2005 | davef
We agree with Pat, but it's far from straight forward. [er maybe we should say we don't understand it.] We duplicated the results of a posting on the web. Flux, then dunk copper wire into tinning pots set at 250*C for measured periods of time. The
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 02 15:29:42 EST 2005 | mika
In my prior posting, I didn't exactly understood what You have in mind. I now understand that You want to get something for free, that everybody else need to pay for. If this is only for personal use so that You will be more skilled at Your work? Th
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 09 16:04:15 EST 2005 | valuems
Hi Rick Your right and I a agree with you. But I think there is to many people looking at the HiE machines, when all they need is a UP2000. The only advantage of the HiE machines is that they are quicker. But they seem to have a couple of problems
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 25 03:29:04 EST 2006 | Neil
I agree Rob, The main thing is that you don't beleive everything without question. If you're sure the supplier knows what he's doing and you have a good relationship with him then a declaration should be OK. When doubt arises it is worth getting sam