Electronics Forum | Mon May 17 16:34:25 EDT 2004 | pjc
I am an equip mfrs rep. I took a customer to my wave solder principal's factory to run their boards on a wave with no-Pb alloy, (Sn96.5 Ag3.0 Cu0.5) in air environment. The results were excellent with pot temp of 263C (505F). Their boards are low to
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 01 07:26:55 EDT 2004 | johnwnz
Alistair, your paste deposit is controlled by a few things: Stencil thickness Squeegee pressure Squeegee speed Print gap in 99 out of 100 applications for paste printing you would have a print gap of 0 i.e. on contact printing where the PCB is in fu
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 02 16:33:08 EDT 2004 | davem
Fuji is the best, but there are other alternatives besides Quad. If you really want to look at Fuji, take a peek at their XP142E series. With "Vision processing on the fly" and a "Mini Turret Head" with 12 placement nozzles it should fit your needs n
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 08 09:58:12 EDT 2004 | Specious
Have Thoughts on Unfair Trade? If you do, then now is the time to speak up. In another Commerce Department announcement, made May 27, the newly created Unfair Trade Practices Task Force is accepting public comments. Comments should identify unfair t
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 16 13:41:24 EDT 2004 | Frank
I agree with everybody here. There are plenty of better options than what you have proposed. Without knowing your equipment brand, or what type of offline software you have, if any, I have a few suggestions. 1) If you don't have any offline softwa
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 18 00:53:16 EDT 2004 | Grant
Hi, I think you cannot go wrong with Convection. If you want to experiment with VP, just get some of the fluid and put it into a pasta cooker on a standard domestic hot plate. Have a basin full of cold water so after reflow you can lift the cooker a
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 31 10:48:36 EDT 2004 | mriddle
Rob and JohnR The ASC/Samsung VSS Series AOI uses white LEDS and high-speed, high-resolution digital color cameras for image acquistion. While it can inspect for correct color by comparing RGB or HSL values, it does solder inspection by acquiring a
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 02 10:24:35 EDT 2004 | dj_jago
Greetings from the UK: I have been quite fortunate to lead (no pun intended) our company towards lead free sooner rater than later. One of our customers produces a product which is refurbushed every 6 months or so and sent back into the market. A
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 09 04:51:19 EDT 2004 | Simon UK
65%), if one failed on the board i replaced all of them, and re-tested and thermally cycled them inline with our spec (-55/+80 Deg/C for 48hrs) this was a nightmare, especially when some cracks were not detected until several weeks later while flying
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 26 08:41:56 EDT 2004 | Bob R.
When we first got into BGAs on ENIG we were getting joint cracking at in-circuit test. The joints were breaking in the Sn-Ni intermetallic. We did a lot of pull testing while working with our board suppliers and our conclusion was that pull testing
