Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 11 13:11:00 EST 2002 | steve_arneson
I have read all of the previous threads and have found it very hard to believe what I am hearing. The idea that AOI is not needed on your production line is like running a marathon without training before hand. You can only expect to get out of an
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 21 21:21:37 EST 2002 | davef
In the beginning, there was TO-5. And it was good. Flushed with success, they created TO-220. It too was good. Then came SMT. It was better than some things, but then again ... In these early days, there was a haze on the horizon that blocked t
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 04 05:33:19 EST 2002 | ianchan
Hi, hope this helps : 1) BCC (bump chip carrier) production for us, was with a 5mils Stencil. The outer perimeter smallish pads are not much of a problems. For the central large pad, we split the paste print (corresponds to the Stencil apperture op
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 22 14:21:50 EDT 2002 | bdoyle
Hello Everyone! I'm sure everybody is curious about what we're up to every day. Well in an effort to improve the site for all of our users we're currently working on a pretty big feature. This feature comes as an answer to the countless emails we
Electronics Forum | Sun May 09 16:25:00 EDT 2004 | gabriele
Military and most commercial standards requires > post-soldered boards to measure less than 10 > �g/in of NaCl (14 when using an Omegameter, 20 > on a Ionagraph, and 37 on a Zero-Ion). > > As Dave > stated, 6.5 �g/in of NaCl is called out in >
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 29 14:13:52 EDT 2003 | stefwitt
My opinion to hold on to your machines was based on the current market situation. First of all, I don�t believe that a customer with ten boards will go to China for prototype production. Truth is, that the remaining market here is the prototyping mar
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 10 00:17:47 EST 2006 | Samir
Patrick, My sardonic wit comes from 11 years of being an embattled process guy who�s basically �seen it all� in electronics manufacturing. I�ve been witness to the �Seagull Managers�, uneducated managers lacking credentials, managers with MBAs but
Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 27 08:45:43 EST 2007 | davef
[clipped] Chemistry of Hard and Soft Water From Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D., Your Guide to Chemistry. Water Works I'm sure you've heard the terms 'hard water' and 'soft water', but do you know what they mean? Is one type of water somehow better th
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 18 20:41:59 EDT 2007 | Machine Designer
The point is that shift is all about adapting not doom and gloom. BTW: Thanks for the flame and insulting words Brett. Way to hijack a thread that merely pointed to some interesting facts that could create some interesting dialog. I was merely inviti
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 04 10:30:16 EST 2007 | slthomas
Q: The question I have is do they wet in wave solder, and if they do, why does it matter what happens to them in reflow? A: Yes, but somebody here don't agree with me that the glued part need help from wave to get the good wetting. They are wrong
