Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 30 14:02:25 EDT 2016 | blnorman
The program I'm working on is having endcap metallization/resistive element failures. These are on MELFs manufactured by IRC/TTE (MCHP). A sister program is having the same issues. They pulled a couple of date codes and did visual examination and
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 11 07:58:17 EDT 2016 | davef
IPC-2252 - Design Guide for RF/Microwave Circuit Boards IPC-2251 - Design Guide for the Packaging of High Speed Electronic Circuits IPC-2141A - Design Guide for High-Speed Controlled Impedance Circuit Boards IPC design standards https://portal.ip
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 14 15:46:41 EDT 2016 | g2garyg2
Happy to help John! PROMATION USA offers in-line "Print-on-Demand" Label Placement Solutions. The ELC-1100P can be used in-line or offline. Depending upon board size the unit can be ordered with an internal flip option as well for dual side proces
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 26 19:58:00 EDT 2017 | methos1979
Wondering how many out there have upgraded their AOI systems to 3D technology? For those that have here are some questions I have: 1.) What system were you using previously? 2.) What systems did you evaluate in your process of selecting a new syst
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 21 09:39:58 EDT 2017 | sumote
The very best batch cleaner I have ever used, and I don’t mean by a small margin, was an Electrovet MCS1000. I kept that machine running a very long time, but a software problem ended up being more than the company I worked for was willing to underta
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 09 14:15:43 EST 2018 | tozitom
Hi SMTnet, I'm newbie here and searching for information on a pcb reconvertion. So in order to reduce costs on a small pcb+ componentes+assembly I need your experience on assembling only SMT components vs SMT+TH; the point is actually my PCB has abou
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 10 10:02:09 EDT 2018 | dleeper
In my opinion the SMT net admins do a good job swatting the spam when it pops up. I would be hesitant to change anything. We have a lot of vendor reps, and people with a commercial interest who still manage to provide valuable content on the forum.
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 06 11:24:56 EDT 2018 | davef
pdf "BGA Stencil design guideline for avoid bridge" As you would expect, Google found 40,000+ results in less than a second One of my favorites was Power Point Presentation by Greg Smith [gsmithATfctassembly.com] at FCT Assembly: "Improve SMT Assem
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 04 17:47:20 EST 2019 | arbpkevin
When I power up the machine and it finishes booting into VIOS, I normally hit the ready button to power up the drives so I can perform the origin search. Instead of "latching on" the contactors pull in, and then quickly release. If you hold down th
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 26 11:53:40 EDT 2019 | scotceltic
Experiencing some solder balls on an SSO-36 package. Things I am planning on checking are as follows: (not necesarilly in this order) I am just looking for a sanity check to see if you would try other things to help ? 1) Reflow profile. I have he
