Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 27 09:43:17 EST 2013 | mchawg
We recently rebuilt the generator and power supply on our '97 vintage Optiflux Ultrasonic fluxer. That cleared up all its issues except. Ultrasonics are reported by all indicators to be running in both Setup and Run mode, however, the nice rooster-t
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 25 14:19:02 EDT 2014 | barryg
Hello everyone. I have a question pertaining to solder irons, tips and solder stations. We recently have set up our lead free wave and reflow oven. We still have quite a few projects that require leaded solder. I was curious how others handle rework
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 17 11:59:59 EDT 2014 | briantmc
Hi all. A "newbie" on the forum, hopefully someone can help! I have a Quad IVc that has developed a problem on its Theta Axis. In performing the Homing routine it does not spin the nozzle through 360 deg as it should. It does a small turn ~45deg o
Electronics Forum | Sat May 17 10:38:49 EDT 2014 | sarason
I hate to say this but in all probability this wont work. I have built real strain gages and they depend on the change(Co-effiecent) of resistence with strain(or Stretch). since you are connecting you elements up with copper wire it will frm part of
Electronics Forum | Sat May 09 02:45:45 EDT 2015 | costas
Hi, I've bought a camera for video inspection ,Metcal VPI 1000 model. Price was reasonable. Unfortunately the light and video control box was missing. Now the light I can easily fix but I have no idea about the video part, I do not know the tasks for
Electronics Forum | Thu May 26 09:54:49 EDT 2016 | swag
Not exactly SMT but something I recently did that might save you lots of time and money: Complex high $ assy that has 25+ conformal coat keep out areas - most different shapes. All locations are dimensioned on customers' print. We tried a one piec
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 29 17:41:35 EDT 2016 | ddina
I appreciate your response. I kind of read about it, and made sure nothing sensor-wise is activated by mistake on the process of zeroing. Right now the machine is in this set up, and the rear rail is all the way to the back stop. So the sensor on the
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 14 01:00:47 EST 2017 | soldertraining
Soldering Bath - When we need to tin high-power contacts or a lot of wires, for example, in making harnesses, a regular soldering iron is either impossible to use due to the high thermal capacitance requirement, or takes way too long to perform the t
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 27 09:05:35 EST 2017 | charliedci
All the response is appreciated. We have 4 SS machines and 2 operators (normally). Some jobs take up to 15 minutes (multiple boards), some take less than 2 minutes (machine time). Some involve fixtures, preheat, some may require the operator to mon
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 06 13:39:49 EST 2018 | GTune
Hello everyone, I am having trouble with our UIC VCD through-hole pick and place machines. It has been sitting around for several years now and I had to replace half the gaskets in the machine which werecausing slow movement. I'm getting an error mes
