Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 10 10:17:18 EDT 2013 | gregp
Hi Reese, Thanks for the feedback. So you have a fair amount of assemblies that are new designs with 10% through hole parts. Are these parts inserted manually? What is the soldering process?...wave solder?...selective solder? Do these components
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 19 15:48:48 EST 2014 | gregp
Thank You Adam...this is the type of input I am looking for. To summarize, you are an OEM that has gone through the process to remove most through hole parts from your assemblies. Those that remain are primarily connectors which may not require lea
Electronics Forum | Sun Nov 23 20:37:36 EST 2014 | gregp
Hi J_Dub, thanks for the continued info...Of course selective soldering would be very time consuming for such a through hole assembly...but 18 minutes, wow...didn't realize selective soldering could take that long. I would like to know the approxima
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 20 15:21:54 EST 2014 | warwolf
We process an average of 300 units per batch with spikes to 750, we can sustain about two to three people populating to maintain good quality/throughput. Part placement is broken up equally to reduce operator stress(usually a limit of 5 different pa
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 20 16:51:48 EST 2014 | joe98375
gregp: Our PTH process has not changed in many years. Our products are fairly simple as far as electronics goes and everything gets potted anyways. ~90% of everything we build is single sided TH with ~ 100 solder joints per board. Each board is ~
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 19 18:51:22 EST 2014 | warwolf
your summary is pretty accurate! yeah our justification on the automatic system is long in the pipeline. we would need significant volume even then we could just bump the staff numbers. I can see how you are having troubles with the legacy requirem
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 21 11:40:53 EST 2014 | gregp
Hi Spoilt, Thanks again for the feedback. It is really an eye opener for me. What I fail to realize is that perception, whether right or wrong, plays a big role in whether or not someone might consider a process change. Your first comment is reall
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 29 16:12:05 EST 2001 | bill_scholl
I have been told that is is possible to reflow solder through hole components. Can anyone confirm this is being done reliably? If so, what are the required equipment, steps and processes? What is the reliability of the solder joints? Is this a genera
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 31 11:20:01 EST 2001 | slthomas
Thanks, Pete. In our case I think the device is just too much of a challenge to take on as a first try at the process. The reduction in lead volume from the optimum round lead to the "crescent" shape pretty much sunk us from the get-go. Just could
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 30 01:32:24 EST 2001 | PeteC
Bill, We do solderpaste reflow on through-hole here every day on plated-thru-holes. We do it on connectors only. It is a reliable process. We use no special profile. The stencil apertures must be modified for this process. Check out the IPC-7525 "St
