Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 03 08:56:26 EDT 2001 | henriksn
Hi everyone, I work in a development firm, that has a small prototype department. We have recently invested in a small automatic SMD pick&place machine. When mounting over 100 different components, the machine runs out of feedercapacity, and the res
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 18 21:36:18 EDT 2022 | ttheis
We have two GSM machines (4-spindle, single beam) and had a camera fail on one machine. We decided to clean and calibrate the cameras on both machines. One machine we had no problems and all is working properly. The other machine will not pick up the
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 05 08:50:04 EDT 2001 | davef
No arument with others comments about moisture, but taking a different tact, consider that the volitle elements of the solder paste disppear as a function of the amount of time the paste is out of the container. [Maybe as a function of solder paste
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 03 16:51:58 EDT 2001 | edmentzer
We have stored PCB's in the refrigerator twice when our old pick and place died during production. One time the boards were in the frig for two days. I put the boards in a tray and covered the tray with plastic food wrap. We waited about two hours
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 13 06:43:22 EDT 2010 | haiae
Hi Mark, Thank you for your opinion about Contact 3AVX. If I place from 0805 to larger only, can CS 3AVX do good? Beside, please tell me about the cost of used Philips Topaz or Mydata TP9-UPF that i can buy. Thanks & regards,
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 28 20:57:22 EDT 2021 | stephendo
It will be tough to get a good line for that cost. You might want to start by looking at Mydata and Juki for the machines. Ekra for the screen printer and Heller for the oven is where you might want to start. If you have not already you might want
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 19 04:21:11 EDT 2013 | spoiltforchoice
The budget is very small, if there is genuinely a saving to be had by moving this work in-house and away from subcontracting you should really be able to justify spending more. If you can't increase the budget maybe try shopping around for more compe
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 18 10:17:15 EDT 2009 | grantp
Hi, You don't need X-ray and all that crap. I would get an old MYDATA TP9 or something like that, and a manual stencil printer and a batch oven or a small inline oven. Should do the trick and be very low cost. Should be simple to use as well. Tha
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 13 22:25:29 EST 2005 | davef
Kathy-Sunnyvale We've talked about Mydata machines quite abit here on SMTnet. Search the fine Archives for background discussion.
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 13 20:56:54 EST 2005 | Kathy-Sunnyvale
Dear All, Our star-up company will be operated in soon, but I still have many questions and concerns about SMT pick&place machine (being good for 0402 and BGA componens)since there have too many kind of machine with various grand name such as Amist
