Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 23 17:50:57 EST 2006 | russ
The 1700 has more manual operator input ability than the 1500. You can stop and start or whatever without waiting for the machine commands or cycles to initiate or finish.
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 25 09:29:29 EDT 2006 | TMC
Take a look at bga rework station by advanced techniques.
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 24 04:49:23 EST 2006 | Loco
Give the Ersa a look. Big advantages: closed loop and no 10 different nozzles. (I wont boast about 'how great' it is, give your local Ersa rep a call and decide for yourself!)
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 24 09:21:12 EST 2006 | russ
So the APE is the real deal huh? What other systems was this compared to and please post results and test parameters. Or is this possibly just a sales pitch?
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 23 11:03:07 EST 2006 | mafc65
Need some feedback about this PACE BGA Rework station.We are planning to buy it but I would like some comment from current users of this equipment.I already received a demonstration, look good but any other feedback will help me. I'll appreciate a lo
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 23 16:18:50 EST 2006 | James
If you would be so kind as to share what you ended up going with and why I would really appreciate it. I have to implement a rework station at my company but I don't have as much time and resources as I would like to evaluate all the available syste
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 23 17:45:18 EST 2006 | Robert Joosten - PrintTec
Before doing anything; contact http://www.ape.com and ask for Casey Schue; he will tell you and show you the real bga rework equipment; the other brands just lack the power to do the job properly; I've seen too many people already buying inefficient
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 24 10:41:04 EST 2006 | James
Mike, Thank you so much, my email is jseagle@zworld.com. I know everyone says you should evaluate all the systems but sometimes for a small company with only limited resources it is very difficult. This will help me narrow my search to hopefully 2
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 25 07:44:39 EDT 2006 | Holly
MikeL, I came across your post. We are also a small company looking at rework systems for BGA/QFN/CSP. .5mm worse case pitch. We had a PACE 1700 on trial and we found it clunky and unreliable. We also evaluated a PDR 410 system and found it better
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 23 12:43:12 EST 2006 | MikeL
I am not a current user of PACE TF1500 however, I have evaluated it along with other systems before making a decision. Wasn't a good system for us. We could not achieve consistency / repeatable results from board to board. Basically, we found it t
