Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 14 10:34:42 EDT 2001 | davef
This portion of SMTnet is intended for people whining about the operation of the forums and what-not. A lot of the people asking questions like your use the production forum. We don't have an air knife on our wave, but I recall some threads on SMTn
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 25 09:29:04 EDT 2007 | swag
Copper is best! I've seen troubles with black pipe - the pipe is not always clean on the inside and debris or mill scale makes it into your equip. eventually. We've also used PVC to get by/quick fix and we always ended up blowing a fitting or even
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 11 17:45:02 EDT 2000 | Ashok Dhawan
I am looking for an appropriate method to dry wave soldered boards. While board assemblies are passed through board cleaning station , they are not fully dry . We do not want to heat above 180 deg F to dry them completely. We think that air drying u
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 11 20:23:19 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Ashok: You're still goin' down that ol' ESD road aren't ya bud? Why do you need the boards to be dry? Conformal coating? Hey wait a minute, are you one of those no-clean people? Er zis related to the Kapton tape res fandango? Anywho, be careful
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 12 21:04:10 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Ashok: You still didn�t tell me why you want additional drying of your boards, but what the hey, we all have our dark secrets. Anywho, let�s consider some options for reducing the moisture of your cleaned boards: OPTION 1 - Up-Grading Your Cleaner
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 21 16:08:56 EST 2003 | clarkk
Hello all, We use pressurized air from a blower to blow off excess water from our pcb assemblies after wash. I'm concerned that this could potentially cause esd damage to sensitive assemblies. Is anyone aware of a device that can correctly ionize the
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 24 12:41:03 EST 2003 | gregp
Look at a company called ARTX, Ltd. (artxltd.com) or Exair (exair.com) They make air knives that ionize shop air for this purpose.
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 24 13:17:59 EST 2003 | Stephen
Air is non-conductive, and it is moving. Not only is it moving, it is moving against something else i.e. the hose. Anytime you have movement (friction) between two dissimilar non-conductive "things" you have the possibility of static build-up. This
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 05 12:25:42 EDT 2010 | deanm
I think you are right. According to IPC-7526 section 6.2 says that using compressed air to blow out paste will damage the stencil, especially between fine pitch apertures. It can also broadcast solder paste onto other surfaces or personnel. I recomm
Electronics Forum | Sun Feb 23 14:51:02 EST 2003 | davef
Without being clear on whether you're talking about: * Standard air knives at the back-end of your in-line cleaner ... OR * Hand held or similar nozzle. Standard air knives: This causes no problem with ESD because the relative humidity is so high t
