Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 17 13:39:29 EDT 2018 | reckless
Our company doesn't need a huge 10 foot reflow oven blocking up space on our shop floor. We have been looking for 1 backup tabletop unit and 1 compact conveyor unit made by a reputable manufacturer. For tabletop units the only non chinese I keep
Electronics Forum | Sun Mar 18 18:01:00 EDT 2018 | spoiltforchoice
Reckless that's easy : Tabletop units are a joke, you could just as well go build one yourself with a toaster oven and a controller, the results won't be great but at least you won't have spent $5k on one with a ssnazzy screen. "Hulking Units" - wel
Electronics Forum | Thu May 03 15:02:59 EDT 2018 | solderingpro
Bob Willis (was the first I knew of) that has a splatter test that can be performed over a ceramic hot plate or the like. The concept is pretty straight forward, using a zoned circle, users can introduce the solder wire at a consistent rate and coun
Electronics Forum | Mon May 14 09:04:58 EDT 2018 | raylawre
We are using ECD OvenRIDER to validate our reflow ovens on a weekly basis to have the data to show our customers that the board we ran 3 months ago saw the same oven condition as the one ran yesterday. Cp/ Cpk is calculated by ECD using a manually i
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 15 10:26:12 EDT 2018 | ks0707
Hello everybody, I’d like to hear your advice regarding the programming for multiple Pick & Place machines. My company is a Contract manufacturer located in SF Bay area and has 4 SMT lines with 11 Pick & Place machines. The good thing is that all o
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 03 12:12:23 EDT 2018 | ceexchange
In my experience, machine life expectancy is all about support. Technological obsolescence has gotten to be minimal over the years. I believe installed base is your best indicator for longevity of support. OEM's will support a machine as long as it
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 15 10:08:19 EST 2019 | griinder
I'm looking for any experienced Graphicode software users for advice. We use Gerber EZ Teach(GC Powerplace) to offline program 2D inspection on our Momentum printers. I have an issue with mirrored apertures when creating my Bottom Side inspection pro
Electronics Forum | Fri May 10 01:42:13 EDT 2019 | vinitverma
A Table is something that you can ignore right now. It is significant only in case of dual table machines such as Sapphire or Sapphire-X which have A and B tables (two independent PCBs being handled at the same time). In case of Topaz or Topaz X or E
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 02 07:12:38 EDT 2019 | jchris
I worked with a PACE TF1800 for about a month on a project last year and it performed flawlessly for BGA and QFN installations and removals. It can handle boards up to 12"x12". Really easy to use with excellent profiling software that walks you throu
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 30 10:29:42 EDT 2019 | spoiltforchoice
Well to some extent, but with QFNs, device manufacturers seem to have really gone to town with inventing new shapes and sizes. So while you could certainly generalize a bit with QFPs with common shapes like a TQPFP100 for instance; thats harder with
