Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 20 16:33:13 EDT 2000 | Bill Brooks
Hi Bob, I am a member of the IPC Designer's Council and as the Education officer for our San Diego Chapter, I would like to see more information available to help educate the existing Designers and the students in design classes we are trying to ge
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 02 09:26:15 EDT 2004 | davef
Q1: How do you define torque setting for screw? A1: Talk to people at your nut supplier. Some nut suppliers post torque tables on the web. For instance: http://www.thelenchannel.com/1torque.html http://www.marfas.com/Ttorque.shtml http://www.pac
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 03 12:36:11 EDT 1998 | davef
| We have an unusual problem here and I'm reaching for more input if anyone can help??? We are an OEM manufacturer of PCA's. After a history of consistent quality designs, we have one small memory SIMM that is causing major headaches for us and our P
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 18 07:52:29 EDT 2007 | davef
Does the change from supplier to supplier as a result of: * Board definition? * Differences in processing at fabs? 3 Specification Fir Tree General Technical Specification 3a Design/Layout: * IPC-2221 * IPC-2222 3b PCB Fab: * IPC-6011 * IPC-6012 * I
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 15 00:51:30 EDT 2008 | boardhouse
Hi Paul, My discloser, I sell for an offshore house, this is Crap.... Section 3.4.3 Annular Ring (External) of IPC-6012A, which also calls out Table 3-5, states that "Plated-through holes identified as vias can have up to 90 degrees breakout of t
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 09 15:19:41 EST 2014 | davef
For a typical wear surface application [millions of wipes], I agree with hege. You need to be talking electrolytic gold, NOT immersion gold. IPC-2221 says something like ... For edge connectors and areas not to be soldered: * Nickel - 2.5um [~100uin]
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 12 00:01:56 EDT 1998 | Peter
I have a customer who is transitioning from 100% thru hole boards to designing boards with smt components. We gave them our basic DFM guidelines and they have laid out 2 boards following these guidelines. When I saw the result of their first pass, I
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 11 13:10:04 EDT 2012 | anvil1021
We are experimenting with void control in reflow and have had pretty good luck for the most part in attaining Class lll IPC spec. but we have seen a sudden increase in voiding on a specific product and I was wondering if anyone has seen this extreme
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 20 15:38:53 EST 2013 | island2013
Aperature layout on your stencil could be a root cause as well. Home plate design aperatures have cleared this issue up for me in the past. If it's a clean product, running through the wash may get rid of quite a few of them. Also check your IPC s
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 09 20:54:58 EDT 2010 | bandjwet
There is no such thing as "IPCA610 compliance". The correct way of looking at this that the boards were inspected to IPC Class I, II or III Revision XX (current Rev is "E") and met all of the criteria. From a commercial standpoint it would greatly
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