Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 03 13:01:20 EST 2003 | jdumont
Good day all, we have a Heller Reflow oven here that has been in service for about 2 1/2 years now. Aside from 2 thermocouples going bad it hasn't had any problems. My question is, how often should it be serviced for preventative maint. and does an
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 05 08:24:16 EST 2003 | Paul O ' Connor
When reflowing a Vishay PowerPak SO-8 & using the recommended footprint from the data sheet, the component is skewing in reflow, to solve this we have to add a glue dot to both sides of the part, will making the PCB land pad 1:1 with the Solderable
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 21 06:49:44 EST 2004 | mk
During a discussion about smt design one of our attendees said that he had been taught that stencil openings were typically designed .005 below the size of the copper smt pads. My experiance has been stencils are usually designed 1 to 1 with the copp
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 05 11:52:54 EST 2004 | mrmaint
To All, I am looking for some feedback on the storage and handling of moisture sensative components. Mostly what people do for tubes and reels since most of these cant handle more than 60c.the ipc standard states that they can be baked at 40c.The onl
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 06 14:08:56 EST 2004 | Andrea
We consider two screen printer from MPM and it is type SPM and MicroFlex. How you compare these two machines. Our the smallest fine pitch is 0.5 mm QFP. Is it really worth to buy SPM or MicroFlex will handle with it without any problems.? And what ki
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 18 10:15:04 EST 2004 | jdumont
We are having problems removing the flux residue from our boards in our batch cleaner. We use Indium SMQ92J which I hear is notoriously difficult to remove. Can anyone suggest a similar paste (price/performance) that has better results with cleaning
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 10 11:24:23 EST 2004 | jdumont
Does anyone have the Falcon vision board that comes in the Contact 3AV? It controls the cameras and monitor. I am pretty sure mine died because the monitor is all garbled. I think it is the same board that comes in all the 3 series models..... Thank
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 23 20:55:00 EST 2004 | Dreamsniper
First Time to solder BGA's using Water Soluble. We are currently using an Aquaeous Cleaner to clean our PCB's but I find it not enough to clean the flux from under our BGA's. Has anyone had this experience before that he may like to share how he mana
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 27 11:36:41 EDT 2005 | Rob
Why? All major component manufacturers' reels come with barcodes already on them or if not they (& their distributors) are set up to issue them, requiring no additional work or cost to fit the process, but I don't know of anyone who ships with RFID
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 28 23:05:56 EDT 2004 | FocalSpot
Hi Daniel, I would suggest you check out http://www.focalspot.com. FocalSpot offers an advanced rework station from Japan, the RD-500 Series, which is unique to the industry and tailored for lead free rework and challenging BGA applications due i
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