Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 23 17:45:18 EST 2006 | Robert Joosten - PrintTec
Before doing anything; contact http://www.ape.com and ask for Casey Schue; he will tell you and show you the real bga rework equipment; the other brands just lack the power to do the job properly; I've seen too many people already buying inefficient
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 24 10:41:04 EST 2006 | James
Mike, Thank you so much, my email is jseagle@zworld.com. I know everyone says you should evaluate all the systems but sometimes for a small company with only limited resources it is very difficult. This will help me narrow my search to hopefully 2
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 25 07:44:39 EDT 2006 | Holly
MikeL, I came across your post. We are also a small company looking at rework systems for BGA/QFN/CSP. .5mm worse case pitch. We had a PACE 1700 on trial and we found it clunky and unreliable. We also evaluated a PDR 410 system and found it better
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 28 09:30:07 EST 2005 | reash
Well the powers that be actually want to go with a regular rework station, for future growth. I guess they plan on using BGAs sometime in the near future. We're also planning on using a D-Pak device in this first board. So now we're looking at the
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 23 12:43:12 EST 2006 | MikeL
I am not a current user of PACE TF1500 however, I have evaluated it along with other systems before making a decision. Wasn't a good system for us. We could not achieve consistency / repeatable results from board to board. Basically, we found it t
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 23 17:31:33 EST 2006 | russ
What is your budget limit? That is going to be a major factor in what you end up with. We have a machine that is lower cost and it performs lower cost. It works and we always get the job done correctly but we cannnot use "canned programs" on it. i
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 24 10:33:13 EST 2006 | MikeL
I know what you mean. Saw this in systems where cooling was not done through the reflow nozzle (i.e. PACE). What happens is that as you run 1-2 profiles, the metal parts along the pathway of the hot air (before it comes out of the nozzle) act as he
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 24 10:00:41 EST 2006 | MikeL
James, Post your email address I will send you that information. Not sure if I still have the comparison matrix of the 6 machines we evaluated but will see if I can find it. Everyone has their own opinion however, saying that APE equipment is bett
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 24 10:08:16 EST 2006 | russ
What happens is: we generate a profile that works and it is fine. however, If we run this profile continously say for an ECO upgrade or something where we are not just doing 1 or 2 we find that as we continue on the profile gets hotter and hotter i
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 27 06:39:59 EST 2005 | reash
For now, on this first board, we will be reworking components such as 0805 and 1210 size caps and resistors, along with SOT-23 and SC-70 size packages. We might eventually get into BGAs. This board will most likely be a double-sided board, probably
