Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 18:07:25 EST 2006 | Chris
Flash gold is just thin gold plating over electroless nickel or electrolytic nickel. Flash gold is electrolytic gold where the panel is connected to a plating rectifier and current causes the plating process to occur. Gold thickness is controlled b
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 05 22:33:57 EDT 2006 | darby
Awww, come on guys, I should never have mentioned beer and fish. Lucky I didn't mention Elle. OK, forget the points and questions 1, (probably correct there Stephen) and 5. Any comments on questions 2, 3 and 4? This bloke's been stranded on an Isla
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 27 08:07:03 EDT 2006 | JH
Yes, that is the unit I have tried (or as you say, a convincing copy). Sorry aj, some months ago on this thread you asked where I was based and the answer is Nottingham, England. I only check this site once every few months and it has been a busy
Electronics Forum | Fri May 26 21:25:52 EDT 2006 | mika
Yes we do place "big and heavy" SMT DC/DC:s on most of our board's. Please tell us what brand it is or at least what the package look like?!? For instance we place a different numbers of "heavy" DC/DC converters (40x20mm & 45x25mm) that has the pick-
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 06 13:29:42 EDT 2006 | Chunks
Unfortunately it's not what you know, but who you know. Sounds like it in your case. Tread lightly as this guy may become your boss. It happened to me. New guy comes in, couldn't tell the "red stuff" from the "gray stuff" (adhesive / paste in cas
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 22 16:04:26 EST 2006 | mika
Hi, This Not so easy as one wuold think. Has the thermal pad of yours vias? How many? What's the via's dia? What is the pcb thickness? If the the pcb has a "ground layer" connected (vias) to the pcb thermal pad, it could sometimes be a little bit tri
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 11 22:01:09 EST 2007 | davef
Joe: I know this is not the correct forum to post chip "reworking" questions. Reply: Rework questions are as appropriate as the next topic here on SMTnet J: BGA will not reflow at any normal temperature level. I believe these chips may have been gen
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 13 15:56:16 EST 2007 | darby
Campos, This is a direct reply I recieved from Indium, (thanks to Rich Brooks), in late 2004 regarding SMQ230. I have followed these guidelines with good results using ENIG finish. Same also applies to Indium 5.1 apply to both alloys (SAC 387 and 305
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 16 16:26:34 EDT 2007 | James
This shows once again that this "what to buy?" and "What do you think about this machine..." crap really has no place in this Forum in my opinion. People have to get off their ass and do some investigating on their own. You have to be living under a
Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 31 11:03:21 EDT 2007 | jmelson
I have a left to right conveyor, so the X offset is larger, but that is not major. You say "Make sure you are teaching with the unit that the machine defaults to or asks for." This is the beam sensor, and I have found no way to change this, either
