Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 23 19:16:04 EDT 2009 | jmelson
Are you sure there is any "cleaning" needed? Can you see leftover bits of the teflon remaining? If so, work on it with an Xacto knife. But, most thermocouple wires are VERY hard to solder - as in practically impossible. Many of them have aluminum
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 24 06:49:59 EDT 2009 | vetteboy86
I'm building a clamshell test fixture. I have all the pins and sockets to make a bed of nails. I purchased an enclosure. Everything else is pretty standard. I do not however have any information on pushpins. These would be inserted into the lid, then
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 29 10:19:25 EDT 2009 | brandieatborisch
Are there any photos available of what good HASL finish looks like as opposed to not desired? I'm looking for something to use as an aide in inspection becasue sometimes boards at our facility are received with HASL where the solder is excessive cau
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 02 10:52:45 EDT 2009 | dyoungquist
For 0402s we use type 3 paste. We have .006 and .005 stencils. The .006 works okay but .005 seems to give us slightly better results. We use a 1:1 ratio for the aperture to match the pad, round pad not needed. With accurate placement and a correc
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 15 14:06:37 EDT 2009 | chrisgt
Hey Dax. I bought a Dr. Storage dry with Nitrogen Generator for my components. It worked out great. Haven’t really had any serious problems it just took a few hours to get the humidity I wanted it at. I bought it from Manncorp. I think they normally
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 08 00:16:30 EDT 2009 | magnifico
Hi Daxman I have the F4G installed in a host PC. I would like a summarized procedure (e.g. step 1, step 2, etc)on how to program, as reading from the manual is taking time. This could get me started faster. Appreciate any inputs. Thanks
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 09 04:15:50 EDT 2009 | dj_jago
$1000 each and once the pad has turned 'black it is almost impossible to re-tin it. Has anyone else seen this problem? Do we have any comeback on our suppliers do you think, given that we placed the components onto the boards and subsequently remove
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 20 06:46:50 EDT 2009 | brucow
Hi All, If anyone knows the default password to enter the BIOS on the Philips Comet 1 machines it would be much appreciated if you could post it here. I am trying to replace the hard drive in our machine with a standard 4GB unit formatted to 40Mb bu
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 31 12:53:58 EDT 2009 | dyoungquist
On our Mydata machine, we place a piece of scrap bare pcb next to the pcb we are loading. Using double sided tape, we attach the cut tape strip to the bare pcb, then program the machine to pick up the parts from that location. The smallest Mydata m
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 07 15:56:56 EDT 2009 | davef
Well, since you've gotten no takers, we'll launch in to this with careful analysis and introspection, fully aware that we're likely to get 'blasted' for any number of reasons. The most critical parameters to monitor for proper wave solder machine pr
