Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 05 21:07:23 EDT 2012 | dekhead
My personal preference is for manual set-up on the conformal tooling and have not seen an issue with bad support due to parts positioning variation... but if this becomes a legitimate issue, you can run in auto mode to reconform for each board (I lik
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 14 20:54:57 EDT 2012 | deanm
We have a Quad QSV-1 and have had some trouble with it reading 0.040" fiducials. Our work is very low volume so we just manually spot the ones it can't read. We do not clean the fiducials. Instead we increased the fiducial size to 0.060" and it has b
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 09 19:09:27 EDT 2012 | jorge_quijano
We used to have a manual printer machine, we could never align the stencil over the PCB well, now with the new stencil we have less defects but still appearing on the Top list. I tried to use more fids as you recommend and one issue I faced was that
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 11 09:11:07 EDT 2012 | cbeneat
To check the airflow for your exhaust, use a manometer. Testo makes pretty good low cost models. Your machine manufacturer should be able to tell you what the requirement is or it's in the manual under setup. If it's a Vitronics Delta wave, I can
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 21 11:55:31 EDT 2012 | cyber_wolf
Do you have the feeder calibration jigs ? If so it should be pretty self explanatory. I'm pretty sure a CP7 has the same loader system as a CP643. If so, the sensor system can be hairy if you don't know what you are looking at. If it has been crashed
Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 29 19:04:13 EDT 2012 | e_music
Hello, I have just installed the demo version of GC-Powerplace. Could anyone here walk me through the process to generate pick and place file from gerbers? I don't have solderpaste layer. All I have got is signal layers (top/bottom), soldermask, sil
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 16 13:26:55 EDT 2012 | surajdn
Thanks for replying... yes i have tried out wikipedia... but it doesnt provide the details... its very general and most of it left me confused... is there a book or something? its funny that SMT is multi billion industry and there are no good resourc
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 16 14:18:41 EDT 2012 | ericrr
My guess is a manual machine would be good for a after sales "repair station" or the engineers doing product development, without it you would have almost drop a large integrated circuit (IC) on to the spot and poke around with it moving it sideways
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 18 03:35:12 EDT 2012 | sarason
I would not recommend a manual placement machine. They are a waste of good money.As they slow down the process. A vacuum pickup unit for superfine IC placement maybe! Good twizzers for caps and resistors. Either 2 irons or a twizzer iron for prototyp
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 20 15:32:12 EST 2012 | lace138
Hi Guys, I recently have moved my 2 smt lines (Assembleon) and need to make sure my compressed air quality does not have any oil and water. The specs in the manual state "water and oil free" compressed air which is very vague. Would anyone know wh
