Electronics Forum | Wed May 29 10:28:24 EDT 2019 | etmpalletguy
#1) Is the card in panel form: (Y)/(N) #2) PCB thickness: Thin card: YES, Thick card: See above. #3) is the PCB warping during reflow? (Y)/(N) #4) Is the PCB Symmetrical is shape & size? These are just some of the questions you need to ask yourse
Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 23 02:16:47 EDT 2019 | emanuel
Some manufacturers put very strong glue, the wider the part is so increases the glue strength. May sound funny but the only thing that worked was attaching a fishing weight to the tape, need to play a little until you find the correct size. The only
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 04 10:37:22 EDT 2019 | spoiltforchoice
Keep some empty tape and splice a long enough piece onto the foot of the tape to keep the strip and the reel connected.(Brass shim type splice being the most reliable) Or Print 3.5mm labels (Brother PTouch make one this size) and stick those onto y
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 17 09:21:24 EDT 2019 | proceng1
We've been getting more and more flex and rigid-flex assemblies. Making carriers for mounting the boards to go through printer and pick & place is becoming more challenging with the size of some of the arrays. Normally we use a pair of pins tha
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 23 14:51:33 EST 2020 | jede
I am trying to write a program to pull the feeder location from juki smt files and I am having trouble locating which file this information is located in. Basically what I am trying to accomplish with this program is to automate the set up process w
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 02 11:15:23 EST 2020 | slthomas
You'll want to chop your solder into "bite sized" pieces for your pot, by the way. A bolt cutter or a band saw are a couple of ways to do it without ruining other precision tools. It's up to you for the alloy you use, but there are several (some
Electronics Forum | Tue May 19 10:28:51 EDT 2020 | smtmartin100
Hi, Our assembly process involves applying Kapton tape to the back side of our device, a laborious cutting and sticking operation. We are scaling up from "cottage industry" so I'm interested to know if you can buy Kapton shapes on a reel cut to our s
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 08 00:12:20 EDT 2020 | duchoang
Interesting!. They don't look like voids as usual meanings. The "voids" take the whole size of pads. We built millions of BGA, never seen those before. Look like the pads refused to connect with solder paste and pushed the paste away. Pads contaminat
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 26 01:33:32 EDT 2020 | jmelson
> why not get an older essemtec or neoden? I > believe both run on 110V. Thanks so much for the Essemtec hint! Their Fox 1 really looks like it suits my needs! 18 mm component height, 50 um accuracy, small size, what's not to like? I'm go
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 29 15:33:28 EDT 2020 | jmelson
WOW, thanks for the documents, this will REALLY help selection. It looks like I want the FLX2011CV, that makes it a lot easier to set up and not have to reach into the machine to load and unload boards. The machine footprint is really compact, 10 m
