Electronics Forum | Mon May 09 15:05:01 EDT 2016 | wooly1
We are trying to reflow some Fox brand crystals to some boards but the solder will not wick up on the ends of the component. It solders fine to the under side but not to the ends. I have tried numerous things with the reflow profile but nothing seems
Electronics Forum | Fri May 13 02:43:21 EDT 2016 | karts22
Hi, We have several fixtures for GenRad 228x tester and would like to change sensor plates as they are quite worn. The problem is that 3 fixtures have different plate sizes for the same IC, side length is 10-12mm. What would be the best size for sens
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 08 08:14:48 EDT 2016 | lilblevs11
Some of our components cannot be cut and clinched. We do use one but some of the leads are too thick to clinch. I was thinking the same thing about the bean bags being on top with top side preheaters. That was one of the reasons I wanted to explore
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 19 03:06:42 EDT 2016 | ishwarsingh1
Upside down placement of a crystal oscillator is acceptable or not ?? As per IPC 8.3.2.9.2 Rectangular or Square End Chip Components – 1, 3 or 5 Side Terminations.I am not sure whether is applicable for crystal oscillator or not . Your answer wo
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 23 09:19:17 EDT 2016 | dalpets
I want to place smd's by hand from tape strips using a vacuum pump. What is the orientation of polarised smd components on reels/tapes? Is there a standard manufacturing orientation, or are there variations? I understand some manufactures have part
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 22 10:21:55 EDT 2016 | philc
If you set the "Base Window" (ie - body of the component) to by viewed by the vertical light, it will give good contrast, and ours usually detects the missing metallization from one or other end, but only on the top-side, obviously. If the metallizat
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 29 18:57:14 EDT 2016 | vchauhan
Is it ok to re-print the mis-print PCB? Personally I am oppose to re-print the mis-print board. For two reasons. 1. You will end up adding solder paste on the bottom side of the stencil. 2. You may smear solder paste in some area. But I would like to
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 11 14:02:59 EDT 2016 | mnorthey
We have a slider Bar on the back side of our Delta Wave. It is adjustable and slides up and down (adjusting bolt) on the back edge of the Lamda Wave to prevent this problem; keeping the trough behind the Lamda is essential as well. Along with attenti
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 03 05:55:34 EDT 2016 | lachrymal
Hi, I am struggling to interpret correctly the following statement: "An aperture oriented with its long axis in the same direction as the blade stroke does not fill as well as an aperture oriented with its short axis to the blade stroke." If I a
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 12 13:54:47 EST 2017 | swiese242
We have a Seho PowerWave that is dual wave and we are having trouble with results only on one production board. These boards are from overseas to side note. I have played with speed, flux, and height with the same results. I am now looking into diffe