Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 02 16:30:42 EDT 2000 | Michael Parker
I found a reference to Cost of Conversion earlier this year. Basically, the average cost to convert a single component from raw materials to assembled goods is $.08, just after pick and place. After placement and before reflow, repair (solder paste r
Electronics Forum | Wed May 24 15:28:09 EDT 2000 | John Thorup
Hello Travis I'm going to have to disagree with your evaluation of intrusive reflow. It's not just for low end and,if done correctly, you will not have lots of half soldered leads and touch up will be minimal if at all. I'm sure that others will ag
Electronics Forum | Tue May 23 11:06:53 EDT 2000 | Michael Parker
Kathy- Greater than 88%. Is that 3-D Nicolet? I had a conversation with Arline yesterday, she told me about your trials and tribulations with re-balling. I would like to suggest you try micro-stencil instead. If your BGA rework center has the capabi
Electronics Forum | Tue May 09 22:39:55 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Hi Earl ... You movin' to Montana soon? Gonna be a dental floss tycoon, eh? The adverts don't bug me near as much as the weekly "Duh, I've got (you choose): * Solder balls * Tomb stoned caps * Poor soldering with my NC flux ... question from the m
Electronics Forum | Tue May 02 05:35:07 EDT 2000 | Donnie
There are a number of different things to ask youreself here. What type of flux are you using. 330, 351, 310 etc. Do you have a hot air knife? As for the residue, that's gonna show on almost any wave soldered pcb. We have fought the issue for a long
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 27 21:04:33 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Ron: Good news: Nicolet makes excellent machines. Bad news: I�m unaware of a machine with the capabilities you seek. * X-ray machines lack of resolution needed in relation to the crack geometries encountered within a high density single material.
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 20 21:45:10 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Wister: Oooo, I understand now what you mean by "an open." Sorry, I was (am) a bit dense. Your hypothesis is reasonable. On the other hand, have you looked at the traditional causes of tomb stoning also? For a defect to be a "tomb stone," it doe
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 17 19:42:34 EDT 2000 | Russ Cutler
We just bought a new Heller 1800 EXL reflow oven for reflowing SMT boards. We us a low temp RMA solder paste with 2% silver. Everything we build is to IPC Class 3 specifications. We have approximately 600 different types of circuit boards we build
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 17 16:39:33 EST 2000 | Larry
We have just installed an omega wave to our W/S machine and are tring to W/S some of our bottom side surface mount components. I am still getting skips on some sot 23's. The component lay out meets all IPC 782 guidelines. I have verified these setti
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 10 08:42:40 EST 2000 | John
We're quoting out a new board design, and one of the prospective suppliers is pitching a silver coating process over hot air leveling. We haven't had experience with boards of this type, and I am concerned about any processing issues that may come u
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