Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 23 09:29:58 EST 2006 | Joe
I agree that it's the probably the chain. The links get dirty and can bind up over time. When you pull the chain, check to see that each link rotatates freely with its adjacent link. I bet you'll find one or more links that are binding. This is the s
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 10:21:44 EST 2006 | Dan
Sorry about that(My bad), they are copper. I believe the same thing, we need to reduce the appatures as we are already at 5mil. Our main problem is the customer...Their tests were failing and for some reason they touched that part up, and then the un
Electronics Forum | Sat May 06 09:46:30 EDT 2006 | coolie1380
I am currently working on a IP2 machine. My company is doing SMT machine refurbishment. I just can�t get my ip2 to boot up to the main page. It is always struck with the {PIA 1 2 �3�} stage and the 3 is always in red. I need urgent help and any good
Electronics Forum | Sun May 07 00:28:05 EDT 2006 | coolie1380
I am currently working on a IP2 machine. My company is doing SMT machine refurbishment. I just can�t get my ip2 to boot up to the main page. It is always struck with the {PIA 1 2 �3�} stage and the 3 is always in red. I need urgent help and any good
Electronics Forum | Wed May 24 16:40:40 EDT 2006 | samir
Yikes! Sounds like a hairy situation there. I've successfully collapsed a Pb-Free BGA (using a Sn/Pb solder paste), with a peak temperature of 220 Deg. C and Time Above SAC's Eutetic point (217) of 17 seconds. Beware of overcooking your smaller ma
Electronics Forum | Mon May 29 12:09:16 EDT 2006 | jbrower
Goll dang Guru, I didn't win any money off of you yet but keep up the good work! I didn't know you were pushing a process that converts coal into carbon monoxide and hydrogen! Amazing! Keep up with your seven dollar words. You are a funny guy! By t
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 07 22:07:47 EDT 2006 | Wave Master Larry
Listen Samir, we some times spray the tops of our baords at wave to achieve top side wetting. Not sure if the engineers aren't setting up the wave right or not, but it gets the jwob done. We don't see any fall out from this and have been doing it f
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 15 04:12:12 EDT 2006 | Rob
I agree with Dave, we looked at it, but they can go walkies, and also people tread on them, drop things on them, mess with the programs etc. We (the IT dept, not me)ended up writing a Visual basic program & put a PC at every inspection station, li
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 26 09:46:29 EDT 2006 | jem
My company also uses the TM8C (all feeders) with the same problem as Paul. The 0402's do exactly the same as he desribes.The SMT operators are correcting the placement data all the time when using 0402 but to no avail. Chris What do you mean by the
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 10 04:16:03 EDT 2006 | dougs
Hi, We have a new product coming soon that has a fair number of PTH sockets and headers. I was thinking that it would be good to use intrusive reflow on some of them to even up cycle times between SMT and hand insertion, however, when i called t