Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 30 11:03:29 EDT 2001 | davef
Nice to have you back on SMTnet. Some of the newer folk have missed-out on the solid contributions you�ve made to the Forum. The chicken wire cleaning basket was a classic!!! [It�s a shame that the folk at SMTnet can�t recover those files.] We bu
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 19 10:03:46 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| Has anyone had experience with placing BGA on gold plated boards. I thought I read a while ago there was a problem with embrittlment causing cracked joints. If anyone has experience with this your feedback would be great. | Mike Mike, We and ind
Electronics Forum | Thu May 06 10:52:08 EDT 2004 | John S
Many component manufacturers are moving to Pb free terminations. I've been doing a literature study of Pb free processing and have found several articles that indicate Pb-free paste with Sn/Pb terminations leads to early fatigue failures. Does anyo
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 30 09:24:08 EDT 2005 | Slaine
we manufacture a range of ceramic parts that have silver termination,there is already a small leaching problem (absorption of the termination by the solder in liquid form)with Sn62 that we live with, having to implement unleaded solder they are norma
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 19 12:22:55 EDT 2008 | operator
Are there any softwares OR functions inside of the softwares that allow a designer that is creating a very large complicated wiring diagram with say....many terminal blocks and connectors etc... to run a point to point check on his drawing? Bascially
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 14 13:16:49 EST 2006 | Carol Stirling
CRITICAL DILEMA! Has anyone run into the problem described below and if so, what was the fix (besides not dealing with this Supplier)? Also, we do not have component manufacturing process experience. We are purchasing a surge resistor that function
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 14 22:48:06 EST 2006 | Cal Kolokoy
That is a tough situation and a tough answer for us SMT forum participants. After all, most of us are in the business of placing and soldering components to circuit boards, and you know the saying; you can't make solder joints with an unsolderable su
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 28 00:01:47 EST 2007 | Muhammad Haris
Hi, The distance between the two terminations/endings/pads of 0603 (0201)is 0.15mm i.e. lesser than than the distance between the 0603 and through hole i.e. 0.5mm My ques is that, then why its termination doesnot short as it has a minimum distance.A
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 06 08:16:13 EDT 2002 | caldon
Jim- Sorry I can not offer advice on the Panasonic machine but do want to shed light on the Die and waffle pack issue. Take note that if the Die are loose in the pockets the balls or terminations could be damaged. The thin layer that the ball is atta
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 31 11:57:03 EDT 2004 | Kris
Hi Any body have any issues soldering tin lead solder paste with lead free terminations ? Components are leaded devices and chip components have read the theoritical discussions on the forum, need to know if any body has seen any real issues tod
