Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 27 16:38:01 EST 2003 | russ
James, The last time I evaluated in-line cleaners (2 yrs ago)the Aquastorm was by far the best. They were the easiest to maintain, acheived the highest cleanliness level (per in-house testing with omegameter 600 heated solution), and were the quiete
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 19 02:02:01 EDT 1998 | Scott McKee
| I am involved in the purchasing decision (Technical side) of which placement machine to buy. One of the criteria we need to specify is how many feeders, and what sizes. I have a provitional parts list of a job that we are most likly going to build.
Electronics Forum | Sun Feb 15 10:47:16 EST 1998 | SMT-ASSY
In reference to your Email response, we will propose to you in the next few days a course curriculum which we hope you will find of great interest. As we told you we offer courses for assemblers and techs in PTH, SMT soldering, SMT full process using
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 16 04:48:15 EST 2005 | carsten
Thanks for your help guys! No, I do not expect a Ferrari at this low budget, we are not contract manufacturers, but only producing our own devices in the area of industrial control and measurement. And we do not expect to have 402 parts in the near f
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 30 17:13:30 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| | | Looking for solder paste specification limits which have reliability data to support them. Currently, we are looking to define the min/max volume necessary to ensure a good joint on CBGA, PBGA, and Micro-BGA's. Any information will be greatly
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 23 09:03:00 EST 2001 | fmonette
This guideline is actually in the IPC/JEDEC standard J-STD-033, May 1999 (although it is not spelled out very clearly, thus the current confusion in the industry). The technical reason is that moisture diffusion is a very slow process. Once parts ha
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 15 16:38:42 EST 2004 | patrickbruneel
Here's my 10 cents Studies done in the 1980's concluded that pure tin was prone to whisker generation. A tin content lower then 70% became exempt from this phenomenon. I have never seen or done any studies on the impact lead had in reducing the pote
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 03 12:37:16 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| | ok, ok, so I'm not an engineer. I'm a salesguy ( and that's nothing to be ashamed of...) Here's my dilemma. I represent a contract manufacturer who is in the early stages of quoting on "turnkey" assembling of a circuit board for a manufacture
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 08 05:11:36 EST 1999 | Earl Moon
| | | And on it goes. Again, I can't thank you enough for your time. I will call you soon as others probably find this rhetoric a bit much. | | | | Earl Moon | | | Earl and Dean, | | No,no,no...please continue here. I've been gratefully rea
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 28 11:16:45 EDT 1999 | Steve Gregory
Hello all, I read about Steve's headache a few articles back and I'm really interested by his tip. However, I'm still wondering why square apertures release solder paste better than round ones. For the same volume of paste, the surface area of th
