Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 29 11:25:49 EDT 2010 | mazjal7
Hi, We are placing a Surface Mount connector on a flex circuit, we are planing on using SMT carriers to support the flex through the SMT process. Underneath the connector a stiffener needs to be adhere, I'm not sure if we should have the flex manu
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 01 08:15:02 EDT 2010 | rgduval
Is the stiffener a piece of FR4, or a component that needs to be installed? We've done a number of flex assemblies taht have a rigid stiffener, generally a piece of rigid flex, or FR4 that has the components mounted on it. This type of stiffener
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 02 17:43:17 EDT 2000 | Dave F
James: I believe Delmat is a proprietary product. Check with some of the solder fixture fabricators in the archives. Continuing, I would not select knowingly Delmat as a board stiffener. It's a composite material similar to oriented strand board
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 18 08:23:33 EST 2010 | remullis
I experienced warpage on a 7'x 13" long board, unfortunately my oven does not have center support. I use stiffeners on both of the short ends. It fixed my problem. Some of the things I was experiencing with the warpage on the second pass were placem
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 09 14:00:51 EDT 2018 | tey422
To me the most challenge would be the printing step. If you can print it, you should able to run it with SMT. We ran similar thickness flex boards before. But it's long flex with small stiffener at both ends, and it was 10up array. You need fixture
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 02 15:53:51 EDT 2000 | James Burrell
I'm considering using Delmat, or some equivalent material, as a stiffener for rather large pcb, but I don't know the material properties. Specifically I'm interested in: Young's Modulus, E Poisson Ratio, nu Density, rho Strength, Thanks, Jim
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Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 28 02:37:17 EDT 2005 | grantp
Hi, Check to make sure your paste is not dried up, and it should roll across the stencil, not slide. Also, if your running in a cold environment, then that can stiffen up the paste, and it will still to the blades, and not roll over the stencil corr
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 21 11:12:05 EDT 2010 | remullis
I have some 13" long boards that warp considerably during first pass through reflow (no center support), what I've done to improve this type of warpage is stiffeners along the front and back edge. This may help with twisted boards as well.
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 01 13:09:18 EDT 2010 | clampron
Good Afternoon, How is the stiffener adheared? If it is laminated to the flex, it may help you with the surface planarity through reflow. If it put on with PSA, it may cause more problems then it would solve. PSA gets soft through the reflow. It may
