Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 02 22:57:02 EST 1998 | Kelly Gossman
Micheal, What does your profile look like for the wave? What profile does your flux say you need? My guess is it is not your profile, our testing with solder balls found that the mask on the boards was the largest contributor to solder balls. Wha
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 15 11:04:33 EDT 1998 | Jim Price
| We are a small contract assembly shop hand placing SMT. We recently received a large contract for SMD that will require placement rates of at least 6,000 CPH. I am looking at Fuji, Mydata, Quad, and Zevatech. I have little experience with automated
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 01 09:24:23 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| We�ve been thinking again and need your help in sorting through an issue related to deionized (DI) water cleaning of assembled boards. | THE BACKGROUND: The water reclaiming systems goes: gross filter, fine filter, carbon bed, mixed resin bed, ca
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 07 07:44:56 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | No sour grapes, | | | This has gone on too long. I expect no free advertising, nor do I seek it. It is clearly understood Bob is an industry leading consultant. What is not understood, at least by me, how he is allowed to "advertise" so freely
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 08 15:01:02 EDT 1998 | D.Lange
| I work QA at an OEM in Alberta, Canada. I saw earlier posts on the smtnet regarding PCB haloing criteria. I am currently in a dispute with my PCB vendor over the acceptability of haloing (delamination) around plated through holes and vias on a lot
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 03 07:13:27 EDT 1998 | Tom Tellinghuisen
| We have experienced poor adhesion of acrylic conformal coating to plastic bodied IC�s. The observed symptoms of this are a blistering or lifting of the coating at the surface of the component, although peel testing has revealed that this is not al
Electronics Forum | Tue May 26 15:49:05 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | We currently bake plastic SMT parts in accordance with the IPC guidelines for moisture sensitive parts. Because we have double-sided boards that are subjected to either an aqueous or semi-aqueous cleaning process, we do a 24 hour bake at 125 deg
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 14 15:50:45 EDT 1998 | Bob Barr
Justin, Thanks for the response to my dilemma. For once it's not just me! The parts seem perfectly solderable, but I will try the modification to the profile you suggested. I wonder if the retention clips may be letting loose from the holes they a
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 19 10:09:48 EST 2002 | caldon
I always look at the support structure. This is where I feel the real Dollars and cents come into play. Sure you can calculate the derated value over months or years. But If your machine is in a "machine down" situation the derated value does not cha
Electronics Forum | Sat May 10 12:58:33 EDT 2003 | stefwitt
I find 100 feeder slots of 16 mm width quite sufficient. If there are two feeder tables, each table is ~ 36� wide. Even slow machines can travel that distance in less then 1.5 seconds. If I further assume, that an optimized set up may save 30-40 % o
