Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 26 17:05:36 EDT 2004 | babe
If you have deep pockets and wish to spend alot of money over the next few years, then yes, call Metcal. Whatever solder iron you plan to use, it is my suggestion that you take a look at the board that you are going to solder. How big are the pads? H
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 19 05:29:30 EDT 2006 | dougs
Good point about the cycle time, we've had a think about this issue, we are set up mainly to do small batch sizes, the reasoning for thinking about laser soldering is that there is no requirements for wave solder tooling, on a batch of 50 boards or s
Electronics Forum | Wed May 03 11:12:08 EDT 2006 | samir
Iron huh? You sure about that? We have the ERSA Versaflows and our nozzles are made out of ST37 Tool Steel. There is an "American equivalent" to this grade but I forgot what it is. You'll have to google it like I did. Anywho, Tin or Tin-Lead sold
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 06 18:48:04 EDT 2016 | jlawson
Valor mss process preparaton has a stencil tool module that can do just what you want as well as alarm you if for a defined thickness what apertures need attention Is template driven so can save your stencil processing and settings.. Is powerful to
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 01 01:21:05 EDT 2005 | cmiller
PS, sorry for any confusion, ALDSMT and CMILLER are both me. ADLSMT is my user name on SMTNET and CMILLER is me, cmiller@adltech.com I usually use cmiler to reply to stuff as if anybody e-mails me it makes more sense. adltech.com is a work in progr
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 03 05:16:22 EDT 2003 | kanwal324
You can have Hakko vacuum pen it has motor for vacuum generation in the pen only which results in having more sucking power. Regards K J Singh
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 17 20:47:51 EST 2010 | jlawson
Also take a look at vplan from Mentor graphics(Valor) this has very powerful CAD/CAM to centroid capability...can generate Centroid data from Gerber - creates packages , polarities and assigns Refdes with easy to use tool...
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 26 15:58:18 EST 2012 | RG
I would also look at Orion Industries. They are a power member and help support this forum... http://www.orionind.com.
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 03 00:20:28 EST 2015 | bwetman
"The best PCB Layout tool is PowerPCB, it is very good and i am new in PCB design,i worked with pulsonix, eagle & ultiboard."
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 22 18:06:49 EST 2019 | nniculita
We are using Valor MSS for DFM and DFT. Very powerful tool especially if you have also VPL (Valor Parts Library) access/subscription.
