Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 02 10:24:35 EDT 2004 | dj_jago
Greetings from the UK: I have been quite fortunate to lead (no pun intended) our company towards lead free sooner rater than later. One of our customers produces a product which is refurbushed every 6 months or so and sent back into the market. A
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 16 21:22:39 EDT 2004 | Darby
Cesar, I am not familiar with these machines but I have found that servo controller problems do not usually cause mis-placement. They tend to just stop the machine with *axis system erors. As I understand it, after you have done a return to origin,
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 27 11:38:44 EDT 2004 | marc
This has always been a big debate on what is better. Few things to consider before getting into number of zones. What is the throughput and cooling requirements? Throughput is a direct relation to length of heating zone. Longer heating length
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 11 10:09:06 EST 2004 | D.B.Davis
Dear Colleagues, I am working with a new prototype product that is presenting some interesting problems. My Engineering Dept. has made some suggestions that I find a little odd. I am looking for some confirmation from fellow SMD personnel as to the
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 12 15:56:50 EST 2004 | pdeuel
Thanks, That's the direction i'm headed. After by passing relay altogeather, testing large caps for the driver supply, replacing bridge rectifiers, and the MOV's, that's about all im left with. The vacuum motor will run with the software toggle witho
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 12 03:57:17 EST 2004 | pioneertechnology
Hi All For the past 8 years we have been screen printing paste succesfully using hard rubber blades. Over the past 12 months we have changed paste from lead to lead free, the board size has changed from 300x200mm to 120x90mm and we have also moved
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 17 15:04:27 EST 2004 | russ
SMT assembly, First, you must utilize paste otherwise the parts will not stay put. Do you have any leaded devices such as QFPs or SOICs? Dispensing paste by hand is very difficult and time consuming for these types of parts. You can either dispense
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 19 15:29:25 EST 2004 | JB
"Wondering if there's an easy solution to save a product along with component database to disk, and load the product directly from there?" The program that you have on your GSM should be the last known good program right? So why would you want to sa
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 01 12:43:39 EST 2005 | jbrower
Hi Scott, My Heller is a bog standard Heller 1500 with an edge guide. There is nothing special about it. I would of course love to have a 7 zone oven, but...I have to use what is here at this time. My only concern with a 5 zone oven is the change i
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 11 08:15:35 EST 2005 | davef
It sounds like you already know the answer. Hand soldering is much more stressful to a board than mass soldering, because: * It is more localized and there is no preheat. * It is more difficult to control. [Different connections require different h
