Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 12 22:15:56 EDT 2013 | ericrr
Sorry to build up your hopes. The latest thing to hit the air ways at work, I was accessed of fiddling with the oven settings, because there were reports of "cracked joints" there was no mention of where the cracks were, cracked at the pcb or cracke
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 18 08:58:49 EDT 2004 | M.Enright
We are finding cracked capacitors at both first pass and second pass.
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 19 11:06:59 EDT 2004 | M.Enright
Are all of these parts from the same supplier? No. We have three different suppliers,AVX,Dublier and Kemet.We have had cracked capacitors from reels of each of these suppliers.
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 25 09:32:59 EDT 2004 | bobpan
I have seen tooling cause cracked capacitors.....are the plastic standoffs compliant???? If they are not.....this could be the cause....
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 21 15:33:56 EDT 2004 | Indy
I have seens cracks from AVX capacitors too. The thing is they already have micro cracks that are not visible to naked eye. When the capacitor is stressed the crack expands. One way of mitigating this is by tweeking your process. See how your singula
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 17 15:52:29 EDT 2004 | davef
We agree with Rob. It sounds like someone is trying to pound your caps through the board.
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 16 07:47:49 EDT 2004 | M.Enright
Currently we have an issue with cracked capacitors at SMT 1&2. We have seen several different types of capacitors cracked on at least three different products. We are using an "Universal 4796 HSP".This has been checked by a rep from "Universal" who c
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 16 11:25:46 EDT 2004 | davef
A little more information, please: * Describe the location and pattern of your cracks * Tell us the type of capacitor that you're destroying
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 17 12:03:47 EDT 2004 | mmjm_1099
Do a search on cracked caps in the search bar above. There is lots of past history for alot of us in this area.
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 18 06:28:55 EDT 2004 | M.Enright
We have Z height adjustment on a turret chipshooter to compensate for various thickness. At the moment all the 1206 Cap are treated the same.It's something we are going to change over the next few weeks. Thanks for your help!.
