Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 12 19:48:47 EDT 2010 | bootstrap
I like what you're doing. 20 years ago anyone, hobbyists and tiny garage-shop companies could create electronics devices just as sophisticated and cool as big corporations. Today, SMT has largely trashed the creativity (and competition) that existe
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 17 11:02:47 EDT 2008 | dwelch123
You need to adjust the air kiss. The machine blows a slight amount of air after placement and it is probably adjusted too high.
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 14 23:20:05 EST 2002 | alanwilson
Missing and misplaced components could be down to board supports set too high or too low. Check the ZO and make sure the deflection is set ok at various points across the board. Check the other usuals such as sticking nozzles, correct size nozzle for
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 18 09:35:42 EDT 2005 | stepheniii
If it were other machines I would suggest the possibility of air kiss blowing the solder away, but mydata's have a release to make sure the air kiss never gets too high. Unless it is not pointing 90 degrees away from the machine like mydata recommend
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 04 14:15:10 EST 2022 | emeto
If the part makes it in the right location by leads touching the paste in the right location, you have very few places to check. 1. Check parameters like air kiss, or some timings you can keep the part down in placement position for a while. Sometim
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 11 16:30:33 EDT 2003 | T.Vick
You have received some great feedback so far. I would like to summarize and add a few points regarding maintenance. You should start (as recommended already) by verifying your component library data. Using the default values from the master library i
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 20 14:44:26 EDT 2000 | Bob Willis
If you are getting skips on these parts the most common reason for skips is gassing and wave too low. I would agree that wave soldering these parts is not ideal. If the shorts are always in the same location on one or two pins a glue dot done during
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 04 10:48:08 EDT 2006 | Rob
Hi Piet, We looked into this too at some length (we do a lot of FPGA and 16 & 32 bit micro designs) and every semi auto machine we checked out was to be fair, crap. Especially on the number & type of devices you could sucessfully handle, set up & a
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 30 15:06:07 EDT 1998 | Chrys
I didn't use my real name because I don't want to get bombed with phone calls and emails. We are an OEM looking to put in a SMT line soon. Is this GSM a decent machine? How much does it cost? | | Also and info on decent screen printers and re
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 22 14:21:13 EST 2004 | James Dornan of APE Inc
A little late but if this subject is still of interest the following paper from APE may be of interestwhen considering IR to Air Bath: HOT AIR versus IR and other convection Rework Systems HOT AIR is the most popularly chosen method of rework in th
