Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 12:48:54 EST 2006 | krc
Pardon my ignorance on this subject but I gotta ask... When the SMT guys load partial reels, I'm told that they have to waste a few components in the process. It seemed obvious to me that there should be a kind of tape that can be added to the end
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 19 04:41:42 EDT 2006 | ge_lim
Hi I am using selective soldering to dip soldering the connector pins to the PCB and would like to know your experience: a) Is there a recommended dip or dwell time for the dip soldering? b) How do we improve the solder coverage in the TH? c) How t
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 20 07:53:24 EDT 2006 | Yanick
Hi, I'm just wondering if someone have more information about board with immersion tin plating. I search in the archive but didn't find anything interesting. We try it, and we have difficulties to make a good solder joint with the wave. And wi
Electronics Forum | Tue May 02 20:55:10 EDT 2006 | Board House
Hi all, I'm looking for anyone with info in regards to reliability of carbon ink vs. Immersion Gold Key pads. I have customers that still request Carbon Ink for there Key pads, while the majority have switch to Immersion Gold. Is there any readin
Electronics Forum | Wed May 17 23:45:05 EDT 2006 | smt_guru
The question to ask is not so much in contamination of this mixed technology metallurgies, but rather, will this metallurgy successfully coalesce into a reliable interconnect? I find in my consulting travels worldwide that many of my clients do not
Electronics Forum | Wed May 17 23:59:16 EDT 2006 | KEN
Repeatability data please. Please provide source. Can you provide the standard deviation and sample size please. Does this data represent all major angles? Was this data independently verified? Was this data collected using glass parts or p
Electronics Forum | Thu May 18 15:47:18 EDT 2006 | slthomas
Don't really know if fixing the damage would even fix the board. The cut is deep, short, and narrow, like it was stabbed with an Exacto point. There is visible disruption to copper in the second layer but we can't tell if there is an open, a short, o
Electronics Forum | Wed May 24 16:12:40 EDT 2006 | PWH
Hey you FlexJet users out there... We just bought a new Universal machine with a FlexJet head on it. Excellent machine. However, I'm still in the learning stage and having a little trouble with 0402's and 0603's (caps mostly but resisters as well)
Electronics Forum | Wed May 31 12:17:10 EDT 2006 | jbrower
Hey aj, Well, the quick answer is you're probalbly srewed if the customs agents find out that your product isn't RoHS compliant or if yor competition rats you out. I wouldn't bet on any exemptions for consumer goods for quite awhile if ever. The m
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 01 10:39:42 EDT 2006 | ratsalad
I got it from McMaster-Carr. http://www.mcmaster.com/ They have just about everything you could ever want, but I don't know about delivery to the UK. I think it cost about $40, or about 30 Euros, or about 20 British pounds. The dollar really isn'
