Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 29 02:14:07 EST 2001 | peterson
AOI technology is over-priced and inconsistent...lots of false errors. Your best bet is a paste height measuring device (3-D) Cyberscope makes one for 25-30 thousand. This process is really only necessary for high volume operations. As for you questi
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 09 05:15:36 EDT 2001 | sinclair
Why measure solder volume? I believe if one understand the process well enough, the effort should be spent on area that will gives better indication of your solder printing process. From my personal experience, a lot of auditor knows little of the pr
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 09 20:13:01 EDT 2001 | davef
First, some people wait a lifetime for ... ;-) Second, how do you guys measure the stencil aperture clog? What do you think of the Magnaplancil from Fendelaz? It�s a double fyv-blue-green CO2 laser refract-defractometer. ;-) Third, do you really
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 10 16:18:06 EDT 2001 | davef
What time? An in-line bot with a vision system tuned for paste recognition can measure a different portion of each board and keep pace with the placement machine all day long. I don't understand what you guys propose as an alternative. Realistical
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 23 15:19:11 EDT 2000 | Dr. Ning-Cheng Lee
From solder material point of view, a solder paste with slow coalescence rate, or slow wetting rate, will be most desirable. Processwise, allowing the paste to stay at soaking zone for longer time will dry out the volatiles, and reduce the chance of
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 20 14:05:59 EDT 2000 | Mike McMonagle
With 0402 components becoming more common today outside of the telecommunications industry, our company is qualifying equipment and processes for an upcoming product incorporating 0402s. Having used 0402s in a previous position, I am planning a DOE o
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 20 13:08:35 EDT 2000 | Bob Willis
The solder paste formulation is different 63/37 is a tin lead alloy so t here is one difference from a lead free. Yes you can get no clean lead free products but if you compare the amount of visible residues they will be normally higher. So far most
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 13 16:56:19 EDT 2001 | gsmguru
The only ones we've tried so far are Indium SMQ92 & AIM NC251 + one from Sinju (SP ?) that I can't remember the Part # for. They all printed fairly well. The pump seems to be a bit more forgiving than traditonal blades. The Rheo pump may mask some pa
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 14 10:50:38 EDT 2001 | Dave G
Are you changing heads because of pastes or just changing widths ? Changing the head w/o cleaning is fairly straight forward. (Actually it's Pretty easy.) We have two widths - 8" & 12". We switch twice a day with very few problems but, we don't have
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 15 09:13:53 EDT 2001 | jackofallprocesses
Does anyone have knowledge or experience with Pin & Paste on boards that are .095" thick? The boards would have mixed technology, PTH, fine pitch, and BGAs. I did a search for this info and nothing touches on this particular subject, thicker boards.
