Electronics Forum | Fri May 17 10:53:15 EDT 2013 | davef
ENEPIG or Imm Pd? Concerns about palladium as a solderability protection are: * Palladium is more difficult to process in fab than gold * Palladium solder alloys can be brittle, similar to gold, without proper soldering process and/or specification/
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 04 13:34:02 EDT 2007 | rgduval
I'd be happy to tell my customers that they need to provide more parts...the problem is, we specialize in short runs. So, if the customer pinches pennies, and only buys 50 pieces for 50 piece demand, I need to be able to deal with it. Hence, the
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 22 10:06:53 EDT 2000 | George English
Has there been a definite date for the total move over to lead free? Will it be 2004 or 2008. Also is there a direct replacement for leaded solder, I have read various articles on numerous alloys suggested for the switch, such as bismuth, tin, copper
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 10 12:56:09 EDT 2003 | davef
Intermetallic compounds [IMC]: * Form during the alloying process of some metals. In soldering these are Sn, Ni, Ag, Cu, Au. * Do not accept solder. * Increase in depth in logarithmic proportion to both time and temperature. [So during the solder
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 29 18:55:34 EDT 2002 | davef
Good question. What did your customer say?
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 20 08:17:32 EST 2008 | ck_the_flip
Steve, KIC does. The new KIC2000 has built in dwell time sensors. You can buy KIC's wavesurfer option (like MOLE's waverider), or you can engineer a custom pallet for 1/3 the price. I made a custom pallet and took advantage of the KIC's automatic
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 20 07:18:42 EDT 2018 | proceng1
Has anyone else been experiencing this lately? We have had a rash of boards that come in properly vacuum sealed. We store them in the hot room until we are ready to build, and we get bubbles under the solder mask. We've had 4 different jobs, all di
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 13 17:39:27 EDT 2008 | awegener
In light of this new information I've received from everybody's comments, I'd like to get more information about pick and place nozzles. How can I learn more? ... What do the nozzles look like? Are there different shapes? What kind might you r
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 10 10:31:47 EDT 2020 | proceng1
Certain customers do give us CAD. USUALLY ODB++ but I've also gotten .ipc and .pcb . Many of our customers bought or inherited a design, and therefore have no control to generate additional files. Or, as you mentioned, they had another manufacture
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 07 20:42:19 EDT 2022 | stephendo
The boards were just a little larger than a SOT8. IIRC we had a pizza slicer type depanelizer and it wasn't too bad. We just did enough to populate the bare PCBs we had. Where I am now a customer has us put a QFP and a few other parts on a SOW28 f