Electronics Forum | Tue May 18 17:07:57 EDT 1999 | Chrys Shea
Today I submitted a nomination for Cunli Jia for the SMTA Founder's Award. I would like to encourage other SMTA members to do the same. Now I know we're a bunch of engineers and not writers, but it will only take a few minutes to send a letter off
Electronics Forum | Sat May 16 05:48:02 EDT 1998 | Wayne
| Don't ya' just hate that kinda' stuff? The ones that always get me is when some company is advertizing a pick and place machine, and they have a picture of a board in the machine, under the nozzles, that's supposedly getting placed... the only prob
Electronics Forum | Thu May 22 17:17:37 EDT 2003 | ssnow
I have to agree with you on the documentation side of the manuals ,they were written before they ever hired a tech writer, when they finally did they wrote manuals for the newer stuff and let the older machines alone. The basic's are pretty straight
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 16 16:37:08 EDT 2004 | davef
As we mentioned in an earlier response in this thread [Q5], you do NOT want to solder to hard gold. Hard gold is a wear surface. [That's IT, that's the LIST.] If you want to solder to gold, then either use: * IPC-4552 ENIG specification, mentioned
Electronics Forum | Sun May 29 17:36:11 EDT 2005 | MikeaJ
Dear JMT, I have read your reply, and you have one small valid point. There are times when you should call Technical Support. It is not for us to judge when each individual calls upon that resource, allow me to note a few points: 1. You can't always
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 11 18:47:43 EDT 2002 | slthomas
A couple of questions to establish a baseline for when the check writers start asking questions........ How many of you have vision systems on site for BGA inspection? If you don't have it, do you do 100% X-ray, or did you just nail down the proces
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 06 08:51:26 EDT 2003 | davef
The EIA does not provide that information. EIA standards focus on component dimensions. Alternately consider: ...cut... SM-782A - Surface Mount Design & Land Pattern Standard, Inc. Am. 1 & 2 ANSI Approved Get up-to-date land pattern recommendat
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 07 14:29:49 EDT 2005 | pjc
FYI: The Speedline Technologies Knowledge Blog, at http://www.speedlinetech.com/blog, will share industry-leading insight, technical know-how, and personal observations from the company�s top experts. In the blog�s first entry, Gerald Pham-Van-
Electronics Forum | Mon May 07 16:49:59 EDT 2001 | davef
Ashok, What in earthly heaven does this question have to do with "site support"? You can�t always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need. Some leads are: * The proposed IPC cable/wire harness document is now IPC/WHMA-A-620 and go
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 26 14:06:33 EDT 2006 | patrickbruneel
Jun 26, 2006 (See Comments Below) Editorial Managing the Naughty Child Mike Martel, Editor, Circuitnet I've been listening to voices on both sides of the RoHS issue and the more I hear, the more foreboding the tone becomes. Despite what some wr
