Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 17 19:18:53 EST 2007 | bbarton
OH MY GOD!! Finally it's becoming public knowledge here on the streets. YES germanium is in this material. As much as these guys and ALPHA METALS wanted to keep these things secret, anyone with a halfway competent lab would quicky find out why all of
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 17 19:01:45 EST 2007 | bbarton
As someone with a LOT of experience with the "low cost" alternative alloys, primarily SACX, I have one simple question....Are these shorts a new phenomena? WAS your process in control, and all of a sudden it's not? If the answer is YES, take a look a
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 19 15:32:03 EST 2007 | slthomas
"Any risks associated with double pass stencil printing?" Mostly just too much paste, plus the associated bridging, and your stencil gets dirty quickly. Any gap between the stencil and the board gets filled with paste on the first pass, then migrate
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 04 09:44:59 EST 2008 | philkaz
Hello, I am Philip Kazmierowicz and I work with KIC, a Thermal Profiling company. We have done many lifetime experiments on Printed Circuit Boards over the years. The key thing to understand is that if the primary material of the board in FR4 fiber
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 04 07:54:24 EST 2008 | benzy1961
My experience has been very different from the other responders. We put an in-line system in place about 3 months ago and the results have been pretty eye-opening. We were astounded to see how many prints were actually bad once we started inspectin
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 07 13:07:11 EST 2008 | chef
All must be cautioned when messing with acids. Of course, neutralization is required. ("ADD ACID TO WATER", says the wise mans daughter). But at what cost to do the job right? Theoretically, anythings possible. Have messed with acids for soldering an
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 10 15:06:50 EST 2008 | mmjm_1099
Hello all, Long time no talk. We just happen to pickup a XP242 the other month and like it so far. Well we have a question for you XP users or anyone that can help. There is a MFU on the XP and I was wondering when the operators pull it out for setup
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 14 22:52:48 EST 2008 | davef
Using larger pads on the corners is fairly common to improve self-alignment of BGA and CSP. For example, "9.3.2.8 Large corner pads and overprint The self-alignment of BGA or CSP can be improved through a design change. By utilizing a large board pad
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 11 16:05:46 EST 2008 | jlawson
Our programs are created in an ASCII format ( we > do not have Unicam or Circuit cam ), so we load > the finish PNP program and then we sort it by > reference designator. We then load the BOM in an > ASCII format and also sort it by reference >
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 15 09:20:26 EST 2008 | rgduval
I just got a scope off of Ebay from Precision World. There have been some kinks, but, overall, it was a good experience. The scope I picked up actually zoomed a little too much for our needs (I need to use it for assembly, as well as inspection).
