Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 12 08:56:32 EST 2007 | chrisruizuci
im looking to buy a pick and place machine and right now the two that have caught my eye are the Philips Topaz and the Mydata TP9. just tring to figure out which is better?
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 12 13:35:34 EST 2007 | dyoungquist
MyData TP9s Work well in high mix applications because change over time from 1 job to the next can be done in as little as 15 minutes if you have the right mix of magazines/feeders. Component placement rates vary depending on which component you ar
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 17 10:24:17 EST 2007 | etienne
Hi, I can give my opinion in this topic since I worked with both machines. To say the truth, I would recommend neither machine. First of all, operating software is much quite the same for both machines. The TP9 is true that has a larger footprint ov
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 12 12:00:59 EST 2007 | wayne123
A philips Topaz is a good machine, I have accurately placed 0402's without a problem, Fine pitch QFP no problem, BGA's not a problem, I am not familiar with the TP9 so hopefully the other guy can answere questions on that, The Topaz is rated at about
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 19 13:27:21 EST 2007 | etienne
People not knowing how to use them...surely not my case........I have worked for more than 7 years with a Topaz and always performed the maintenance and repairs on my own without the assistance of field service engineers!!! Please respect cause I kno
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 21 22:27:13 EDT 2013 | padawanlinuxero
Hi ! I have the same problem with some rolls of tape, we did check the feeder magazines in our mydata machines but turns out the problem is with the plastic cover sometime it comes with just too much adhesive that the feeder magazine cant peel the p
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 20 18:11:10 EDT 2013 | garym4569
Is the problem with the same component or manufacturer? Just for kicks, load a different component on the same feeder. Run machine in trial mode and place only that component on double sided tape. Gary
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 14 23:32:50 EST 2013 | padawanlinuxero
Hello ! I don't know if this helps but here goes, I have here 2 mydatas one a TP9-4 and the other MY12, on the TP9-4 we have TPSys 2.4 and we use a AM8 feeder magazine, when we bought the MY12 it came with TPSys 2.1, thinking we can use the AM8 feede
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 14 17:00:42 EST 2013 | richardc
I am trying to use Mydata TM8C feeders that work fine on a TP93 running 1.6.18 TPsys but are not recognized by a TP94 machine running 1.4.7 TPsys. I get a green flashing light instead of a solid green. I can initialize the hardware but can not proc
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 21 12:28:11 EST 2021 | vtdivtecs
hey all, I had a comically bad failure yesterday while working with my pick and place, a part got dropped at exactly the wrong moment and flung a bracket up into the tool path, severely damaging the hydra controlboard that is next to the x camera. T
