Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 31 19:49:34 EST 2008 | comatose
We manufacture products that are double sided SMT (double sided reflow) and then have through-hold connectors attached to several of the sides. Currently we solder the connectors by hand, which works fine but takes a lot of time. I'm tempted to get a
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 01 08:40:12 EST 2008 | jdengler
Hi AJ, Change ALL 12 of the 1.0mm to 0.7mm. The CP 4 can only set nozzle size for S M and L not some of the 12 but all 12. 0402 usually come in 8 x 2 mm tape so you need 8 x 2 feeders or you will waste 1 component for every component you use. T
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 25 15:06:43 EST 2008 | dyoungquist
MyData machines are probably your best choice for low volume/high mix applications. Change over times can be minimal when you are loading your extra magazines/feeders for the next job while the previous job is running on the machine. Component plac
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 06 09:48:24 EST 2008 | mainenetservices
Tony, We have a splicing service that would enable you to take a reel of 1,000 to 5,000 components and splice it down onto reels of 100, 250, 500, etc. parts for use in production. The price is $10 per splice and there is a set-up charge of $100 but
Electronics Forum | Sun Feb 10 16:35:06 EST 2008 | neocera
Hi, I have a PCB with a blown PMIC (power management integrated circuit) multi voltage regulator IC. The PCB is rather rare and I need to replace the PMIC, its footprint is 7mm X 7mm with 12 solder points per side. Unfortunately I can only solder th
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 12 16:16:26 EST 2008 | bharath02
I am planning on starting a SMT plant to obtain local orders to start with in an developing country. I would assume a stencil printer, couple of chipshooters, couple of pick and place machine, a reflow oven, ICT and a functional tester as the startin
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 14 10:59:37 EST 2008 | stevezeva
Maybe what you could do is have the stencil contain a tightly spaced mesh or grid of openings over the ground plane areas that you need to be solder covered. Also, to help the solder flow out better, you might want to decrease the percentage of metal
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 14 07:04:19 EST 2008 | daxman
I've never seen that message myself... an idea though.. if your IP3 has a 4400 vision card you'll have seperate LSO cards. The encoders plug directly into them. It could be related to the LSO cards. You could try swapping the LSO cards and see if th
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 15 03:38:37 EST 2008 | keithej2
The X1 glass scale reader is bad. After cleaning it didn't help, we removed the read head and took the cover off. There is a cracked component (L1) and magic smoke/dust on the parts around L1. There's also a dead short on the two tiny wires that supp
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 14 04:38:43 EST 2008 | marjorie
Anyone knows why BGA fell off sometimes from the board? I was running in a single sided only. I encountered a BGA falling off from the pcb pad. The pcb is ENIG and lead free process. The pads had no solder and didn't looks like having a black pad thr
