Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 09 20:52:02 EST 2020 | Mike Konrad
If the world was a perfect place, I would recommend preventing solder balls in the first place. While low amounts of solder balls are common, a high volume of solder balls are problematic to a cleaning machine (batch or inline). Solder balls may beco
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 13 17:39:49 EST 2020 | avillaro2020
Hi, I need help on how to address the solder wicking on the samtec searay connector after reflow resulting to open solder joints on thick and thermal heavy PCB (4.4mm and 6.3mm). I increased my solder paste thickness to 8 mils, the connector is manua
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 14 11:53:44 EST 2020 | avillaro2020
Hi Phil, thanks. I am successful using the same connector on small thinner boards 2-2.5kg) i cant make it work, tried all kinds of profiles with vapour phase but to no avail. Yes you read it right 4.3-6.3mm pcb thickness and 2-2.5Kg. And it is 44 lay
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 15 11:18:51 EST 2020 | avillaro2020
Hi Evtimov, Thanks again! The solder wicking/open solder joint is not actually gross rejection, it is only a few and appeared random (difficult to trend the location of the opens), what is perflexing is that i have this 1 or 2 open solder joints sur
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 15 11:53:40 EST 2020 | avillaro2020
As far as the large thermal gradient I have on my thick and thermal heavy board, I've done quite a bit to minimize the gradient but not successful. it's like one pad is connected to a signal while the other pad is connected to ground, you can't bring
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 21 13:12:04 EST 2020 | oxygensmd
After 10 mind of searching on the internet... https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://islandsmt.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Fuji-NXT-Setup-07.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiG-fv4o5XnAhX8xMQBHdRzCEAQFjABegQIBBAI&usg=AOvVaw1hnWqioLcmvS5V2wj15I
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 22 11:05:25 EST 2020 | dwl
Routing is great for odd shaped PCBs that don't lend themselves to v-scoring. changing from one shape PCB to another is easy. The down sides are you may require custom support tooling and they generate alot of dust. keeping up with the PM will be cri
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 23 17:24:08 EST 2020 | rvines1
Due to couple of customers who still have some products that are completely through-hole, we use our Universal DIP and Axial equipment on a somewhat regular basis. Our machines are pretty old, but they work pretty well, and we don't do enough throug
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 28 07:10:30 EST 2020 | spoiltforchoice
Looking at buying a new stencil frame. We are a small low volume, high mix place & can changeover stencils several times a day. There are several framing systems out there but most of them are Pneumatic.(VectorGuard,Zelflex,LTC Quattro) I've seen/h
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 29 10:13:20 EST 2020 | spoiltforchoice
> Spoilit... and Phil, it is your regular 29" > frame, but it is thinner - 13mm is what I > measured. For your vendor this is cheaper as they > give you less metal, so usually these have lower > price. I assume all stencil ve
