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Electronic Assembly - PCB cleansing and COVID-19

Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 30 11:02:37 EDT 2020 | SMTA-Eric

As we navigate through the CORVID-19 pandemic, many essential manufacturing facilities are still on line and operating. Some at reduced or modified schedules in following the guidelines to help reduce the spread of this virus. My question is in rega

Electronic Assembly - PCB cleansing and COVID-19

Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 03 10:29:29 EDT 2020 | stephendo

Time. The virus does not last a very long time on surfaces. Not sure how long but I read that it does not live long on copper but does last on stainless steel. As far as I know the virus lives as well on gloves as it does on hands. So you still have

IPC pass/fail

Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 30 14:29:46 EST 2020 | kylehunter

Hi all. A recent board has shown some issues with graping and non-wetting on some 0402 capacitors. I believe we have the issue sorted. A combination of a 4 mil stencil with 2 mil reduction not giving us enough paste, and too long of a soak profile.

Solder mask vs non solder mask defined pads

Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 09 16:53:06 EST 2021 | SMTA-64387083

The size of the pad changes among the two. A solder mask defined pad will always be larger than a copper defined by your mask expansion setting. This will affect paste volume, if your standard paste aperture is designed for copper defined pads you m

Pick and Place Startup - LQPF100 bridging issues

Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 25 23:23:00 EDT 2021 | llawrence

The QFP pitch is 0.5mm. Pad size is 1.475 x 0.3mm, and the new aperture size is 1.32 x 0.22mm. I'm not sure about whether or not it is lasered, but on the newly ordered stencil I selected the polishing option. Looks like the pad width is already 2/3

PB-Free HASL and Leaded Solder

Electronics Forum | Thu May 13 20:40:25 EDT 2021 | winston_one

Yes, we can't use pure Pb PROCESS. And as I say we will not use it anyway, as we have lead-free BGA's, LGAs, component with Solder Charged Terminations... It's became almost normal practice to solder it with leaded solder pastes. In this case peak re

What is the naming conventions for SMT Packages?

Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 23 19:52:12 EDT 2021 | stephendo

If you like that one then you might also like this one. https://www.topline.tv/products.cfm A few lifetimes ago,I would always make sure I had a copy of the Topline brochure. They make dummy parts and their borchure had them organised nicely. You w

SMT SOT-23 Part Rotation

Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 31 19:10:17 EST 2022 | chuckphd53

Thanks for the reply... I have two camera types Low Res and Hi Res... I use the Low Res which is just for the 'absence' of part ie. empty feeder etc so it just makes sure the part got picked up... I could try the High Res camera, but it does increa

Silver conductive glue in syringe - mixing

Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 11 07:36:04 EDT 2023 | tommy_magyar

See attached snippet from a datasheet: Syringe 1. Twist and remove the cap from the syringe. Do not discard cap. 2. Measure 1 part by volume of A. 3. Measure 1 part by volume of B. 4. Dispense material on a mixing surface or container, and thoroughl

Varistors that leak, political football anyone?

Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 12 09:45:16 EDT 2000 | Charlie

The following are questions my boss has ask me to send out to you folks. This is done in an effort to see "What does the rest of the world do?" [if such a world could possibly exists, in the first place]. If you would select any or all questions to r


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