Electronics Forum | Wed May 04 08:10:40 EDT 2005 | jh0n!
I completely agree with the both of you, and mgmt. has decided to go that way. Cost, I pleaded, is negligible when compared to the addtl. work/headache of working with an additional adapter. Let me drag this further off-topic if I might...I've read
Electronics Forum | Wed May 04 09:37:08 EDT 2005 | MikeaJ
I would not recommend trying to cram or mix and match multiple images on a stencil. Especially if you are a contract house, and your clients don't understand why sending one board seperate from a panel of four is a pain in the face. However, I have h
Electronics Forum | Mon May 09 10:52:29 EDT 2005 | patrickbruneel
Hannu, First and for all I have a problem with your question "tried and trusted" for the simple reason that you are going to change too lead-free. Ultrasonic soldering or welding is not new, as far as I know it is only used applying the ultrasonic
Electronics Forum | Thu May 12 11:02:48 EDT 2005 | deyo
I've looked at a lot of AOI's in the past couple years. First and formost KEEP IT SIMPLE! Second clamp the boards down this will aid in keeping the camera feild of veiw stable, most that I've looked at this was an option not a stock feature. Also sid
Electronics Forum | Wed May 11 11:36:43 EDT 2005 | rlackey
Hi Peter, There is no Silver in it, which even in small quantities (0.3%-4%) improves solderability. I would try and see a demo on a similar machine to yours with a similar product as everyone can get their solder to look great in lab/showroom site
Electronics Forum | Sat May 14 17:25:20 EDT 2005 | fastek
"What can be done to create economical advantages over here is review the product flow and eliminate process steps with current existing technology. Process steps that can safely be eliminated are cleaning, visual inspection, post wave assembly etc.
Electronics Forum | Wed May 25 14:56:19 EDT 2005 | bobpan
Steve, Use the 1000 as a chip shooter only (and thats if it works once you turn it on). If you have problems with the 1000 just post questions as i am one of the last guys on the planet that knows that machine (and its been a while since i have worke
Electronics Forum | Fri May 27 04:54:24 EDT 2005 | Rob
At least cut your teeth on something that doesn't accurately offer up a device 1mm x 0.5mm every 0.09 seconds. There is precision & there is precision. A lot of cash has been spent by a lot of people on trying to make decent 3rd party fuji feeders,
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 04 01:22:38 EDT 2005 | adlsmt
Grant, I just paid a local owner of a Mydata line to let me run some boards on thier machine to check the accuracy. I had severe doubts about the accuracy of the machines based mostly on your comments on SMTnet. The machine ran great. I have also e-m
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 12 09:08:24 EDT 2005 | cmiller
You might want to look at Universal's Advantis machines. I visited thier factory a few months ago in NY. They are building a LOT of machines so they must be selling a lot of them. I have been to two places that have them installed and the lightning h
