Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 15 11:33:46 EST 1999 | Bob Willis
| Hello, | | We are qualifying new sources of PWB vendors. We've got the first lot of "produciton" boards in and we want to put them through the paces before turing the vendors on. | | So far, the tests I can think of performing, and that we have
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 03 12:38:02 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| I am trying to obtain information on the US Heatsink market.I am trying to establish the top ten manufacturers, current trends, market shares etc Would anyone know where I could obtain such information ? I would appreciate any form of help. | Best
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 11 22:59:33 EST 2003 | davef
As others have stated, there are a few other things in the aveage assembly shop that are much more scary that a reflow oven. For instance, we have a wonderful wave soldering machine and w've been doing that kind of stuff for tens of years, but every
Electronics Forum | Wed May 21 12:55:35 EDT 2003 | Zhenya
Several things for your reference: 1. Starting with data collection: - Have you done a measle chart to illustrate the pattern of the defect? - Have you checked the corelation between shift/time and defects rate? - How about a pareto chart? - Do
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 13 09:36:18 EST 2007 | rgduval
From a manufacturing standpoint, this isn't very nice. Vias will tend to wick solder away from the pad, resulting in insuficient solder joints, which require touch-up. The amount of times any solder joint is reheated should be minimized, as extra h
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 29 08:26:03 EDT 2010 | babe7362000
We are Currently running a Board and it seems that the SOT-223's on the bottom side have flux and water trapped under the part. Nothing has changed in our process and this is the only board that it is happening on. We are using Kester R562 water wa
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 02 07:23:04 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
To you all for comment and summary, The following things I like without endorsing (PCB/PCBA stuff - outside the great women in my life [many] and without [mostly]): 1) A good set of design rules 2) A good set of design rules meeting producibility r
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 27 05:04:50 EDT 1999 | Charles Stringer
| Hi Murray! | | Justin pretty much summed things up...covered all the points. So I'm just gonna give you my preference of what I like other than HASL finish. | | Electroless Nickle/Immersion Gold...nice flat pads...hmmmmmmm, Steve likes flat pads.
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 19 17:41:21 EDT 2001 | Stefan
I used to love tweaking. I tweaked and tweaked until I got a master degree in tweaking. But than I had to teach others how to program a board and avoid tweaking. After all it does not go quite conform with ISO and other quality approaches. I investig
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 12 20:19:46 EST 1999 | Dean
| AVX and a few other companies make these chip transient voltage suppressors (TVS) parts that are a real *PAIN* to use. According to AVX: | "Due to the semiconducting nature of the doped Zinc Oxide (ZnO) ceramic material, SMT TransGuards ar
