Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 24 08:14:24 EST 2014 | davem
m_imtiaz, Over the last 15 years or so I've found that using the stencil foil thickness +2mils/-0mils has worked very well. For example, if you have a 5mil stencil thickness your upper control limit would be 7mils and your lower control limit would
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 03 23:40:26 EST 1999 | Chris G.
| Does anyone know if I will have problems soldering surface mount components to an all hard gold plated PC board. We want to use hard gold similar to gold used for edge fingers because our customer is concerned about wear and conductivity of connect
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 29 08:32:08 EST 2005 | stefwitt
Particular as a small company and limited resources you�ll be requiring a lot of assistance from the machine vendor. Did you check which other machines are used in your area and if there is already a local service tech? Did you get in contact with o
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 09 17:52:43 EDT 2021 | glasscake
Hello, I have a Topaz-X that is losing its R origin as it runs. The issue can be seen in the following test: Set the machine to ignore vacuum/ignore alignment and have no feeders in the machine also set the nozzles all to fixed. I run a servo orig
Electronics Forum | Wed May 26 10:00:03 EDT 1999 | David Scott
| | | | | | | | | | | | Any suggestions on how to maintain Adhesive dispensing nozzles??? They seem to plug up over night and it is starting to get on my nerves. We have tried leaving the nozzles in the machine, removing them and soaking in alcoh
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 15 19:41:38 EST 2001 | davef
What do you mean by "But after performing temperature cycle test, the former aging rate (from the shear strength ) seems faster than the latter."? Comments are: I can't recall having heard the term "precipitation hardness" [not that that means anyt
Electronics Forum | Sun Aug 08 20:59:55 EDT 1999 | Dreamsniper
| | | What oven temperature should be used to reflow solder (Sn63Pb37) on a PC board (0.075" to 0.100" thickness) in 5 to 10 minutes? | | | | Profiling - tedious but important. As said, start with the paste manufacturers recomendation which is usua
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 17 13:37:35 EDT 2006 | carln
Here is something I copied from Circuitnet.com. This appears to answer your question and then some... http://www.circuitnet.com/experts/ Ask the Experts Jul 17, 2006 What type of cleaner method is preferred for lead-free stencils? What type of s
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 08 01:05:34 EST 2005 | Mike_Kennedy
Our new PCB supplier can give us a 20% price reduction if we convert from an ENIG finish to a FLASH gold finish. My uderstanding between the two is as follows: ENIG - Nickel is plated over copper and then immersed in Gold which forms a self limited f
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 03 18:36:47 EST 1999 | Earl Moon
| Does anyone know if I will have problems soldering surface mount components to an all hard gold plated PC board. We want to use hard gold similar to gold used for edge fingers because our customer is concerned about wear and conductivity of connect
