Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 04 03:39:57 EST 2006 | grantp
Hi, I agree, we have a KIC and have run hundreds of profiles and are still running the original battery and have never had a problem. The software is what matters with profilers I think, and the KIC has really good software that shows you a process
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 03 03:35:16 EDT 2006 | mika
Yes we do have a problem with this. We have by now investigate numerous lead/RoHS PCBA:s The RoHS boards are by far the most difficult one's to probe and test. Our people at the "test area" including Flying Probe and ICT they spend a lot of time to t
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 16 18:48:57 EDT 2006 | GS
Hi Grant, just my opinion, I think the concern could be related to the extra temperature the BGAs have been exposed during the Lead Free Reflow Temperature. So you need to check ( data sheet) what is the max temperature and how long the Pb/BGA can w
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 14 11:30:25 EDT 2006 | SWAG
We had centernest to I/O track alignment problems that were not predictable on 3000. Z-axis height seemed good with relation to I/O tracks but y was misaligned. Ended up replacing y-axis stepper and trouble went away. Also have had trouble with z-
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 12 16:49:56 EDT 2006 | Brad Courtemanche
Good Afternoon, I'm am probably asking a question that has been answered a million times but I am looking for other operators and process engineer feedback on the slim kic 2000 profiling unit. I have played with the unit several times and am not to s
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 06 10:03:19 EST 2006 | SWAG
I don't know of any articles but you will see the following problems: The flux will evaporate from the paste and your solder joint will look very grainy or will not reflow at all. The paste will not have a good, tacky quality. Your pick and place
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 15 12:33:50 EDT 2007 | ck_the_flip
To do a profile at most companies, if you don't have a scrap board handy, you'll use the already-soldered board that's already been through ONE reflow cycle. You spend time attaching T/C's with the aluminum tape - after all, the prep-work is half th
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 29 11:14:47 EST 2008 | wayne123
I agree with Idumont.....KIC works great for me, it has 9 inputs, and is pretty good at predicting the direction that you may need to tweak your profile, the only thing is I think that these untis ( slim kic 2000) are fairly spendy. not sure though,
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 13 09:54:41 EDT 2008 | slthomas
+1 on what robgd3 said. It's basically the same process. The bummer is that you only have three thermocouples to give you the information you need, so placement (and attachment) is more critical. You also don't have the predictative capability of
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 25 12:19:52 EDT 2010 | operator
I have always been under the impression that you want the flux make-up of your cored wire and supplemental flux (squeeze bottle) to be as identical/compatible as possible. I was just looking over a manufacturers datasheet for a resin-based cored wir
