Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 22 11:42:29 EDT 2000 | Chrys Shea
Sal, Silly question: Were the parts skewed before they went into the oven? I've chased down a few similar reflow problems in my lifetime, only to find out it was a pick and place problem. Wrong nozzle size, bad nozzle, feeder not advancing all
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 22 12:25:07 EDT 2000 | Boca
Jason, What Chrys said! Don't try to run the bottom cooler, tried it in the mid 80's, don't work and don't want it to work. If one side of a fab is maintained cooler than liquidus and the other side into reflow it would have an easy 40C temp diffe
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 27 21:00:32 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Scott: I�m not familiar with some of the things you�re talking about, but let me: * Agree with Russ & Peter regarding immersion silver. * Give some snips of information on the substrate side of things that might help you to tie this together. � FR-1
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 23 14:17:47 EST 2000 | Finepitch Services
Stuart, My suggestion is a DFM meeting (most of the process people dream about a meeting like this, and luckily, I've been to a few) with: - project manager (if there's one) - customer service rep (annual volume, lot size, product life) - smt proce
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 01 16:52:43 EST 2000 | Dave F
Hey Hany: Here yago: On power outages: Talk about fun!!!! Can we have more of �em?? � You�re correct that a UPS to run your reflow is very expensive, but all you have to run is the belt motor. That�s "cheap!!!!" Get UPS sizing information from
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 05 20:43:27 EST 2001 | davef
1 Solder on gold fingers comes from: 1a About 70 % of the time it's caused by poor cleaning of screen printer, staging area (table), conveyor, reflow oven chain or belt, and keeping boards separate from cleaning process 1b After loading paste onto
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 05 06:57:52 EST 2001 | PeteC
Dason, IPC/EIA J-STD-001C states: "....temperature within the range of 230C (446F) to 290C (554C)." That's a pretty wide process range. 250C has been typical in the past. We run ours from 230C to 240C. We have found that some single-sided PCBs can de
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 09 17:46:50 EST 2001 | raton
We've used them for several years now. They have done what they were purchased for and more. But, as time goes on, expectations of them rise, sales and marketing hype them as the ultimate cure-all of all defects, and then disappointment is experien
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 14 21:14:45 EST 2001 | davef
BGA Shorting 1 Damaged mask in between the BGA pad and via on the substrate. 2 Poor print registration. 3 Poor via segregation from the pads? Are they tented or is there just a dam in between? 4 Review the profile. You can run into a number of p
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 24 14:22:53 EST 2001 | johnthor
Well, here I am working Saturday. Seems my production Supervisor had the nerve to get sick on an overtime weekend and, for some peculiar reason, the execs expect the numbers to be met anyway. Go figure! Let me backtrack and clarify that it was th
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