Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 08 15:29:06 EST 2005 | bpoech
Has anyone adopted Dual Lane Tape feeders in their production of SMT circuit board assemblies? Universal Instruments caries one if people are not familiar. I am looking into a smooth adoption of this into production and have been looking to gather a
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 27 18:50:59 EDT 2011 | swag
We have 2 Lightning machines (30 spindle). They have been great. Only a couple minor issues in the 3 years we've had them. No troubles with feeders, either. The "Golds" work great and we have had a 3 or 4 with troubles but that is out of 200+ fee
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 05 11:21:50 EST 2018 | spoiltforchoice
Why are they so > expensive? Feeders are expensive, you can easily have considerably more invested in feeders than the placement machine. On new machines you won't find feeders coming in at much less than $500/each, often considerably more. As a r
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 20 20:22:23 EST 2014 | bkendall421
Universal Instruments AC30L. Rated at over 30k CPH but dependent on mix you will realize between 18k and 24k CPH REAL speeds. Very flexible with feeder cart swapping. Wide component mix. American made and the best support of any p&p company. Sounds
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 28 13:51:06 EDT 2018 | reckless
The only real local support I am finding is for universal instruments. I have remote support. What machines in the under $10k with feeders category for learning on do you recommend? Most likely leaning to upgrade to a used samsung machine in a ye
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 09 14:42:08 EST 2001 | vickt
Great advice!........Single tier feeder set-up carts are also available through Universal instruments directly for this exact purpose. Most people who really care about this changeover time have "pit-crews" that work in the component storage areas, o
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 10 18:50:24 EST 2011 | eadthem
We have 2 universal instruments lines 1 with 120spindle and 11 spindle and another with 30 and 7 spindle. our old line was the 120 and the 7. I was wondering if anyone knows of a easy way or a program that can merge runfiles from 2 or 3 machines so
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 29 14:40:12 EDT 2011 | wrongway
Hello All We are currently running 3 universal smt machines one is an advantis lighting head all 3 machines are 2007 we run 2 shifts 5 days a week I have had very little trouble with them or the feeders. we have 2 universal through hole machines one
Electronics Forum | Tue May 28 08:55:25 EDT 2002 | pjc
Rick, Here is a piece written in, I belivee the April issue SMT Magazine: Binghamton, N.Y. Sanyo High Technology and Universal Instruments Corp. have renewed an agreement whereby Sanyo will continue to provide the HSP line of chipshooters sold und
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 27 15:35:23 EDT 2011 | kahrpr
The company on a whole makes me nervous. If I were a betting man my guess is they have the biggest potential to be sold or worse. I am not sure I would bet my companies future on them. The last experience I had with them on new equipment was the sta
