Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 23 16:57:29 EDT 2005 | HOSS
50% of seeing it in a single pass. The only time we do this is if we have a board off the line that has delaminated. We'll run a sample of boards through bare to confirm that we have a bad batch. Even if we see no failures on the bare boards, we'l
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 04 02:23:58 EST 2005 | grantp
Hi, Yes, you will save a lot of money in the end. From what I have experienced you cannot heat up a oven full of air, and cool it down fast enough to match a suitable reflow profile. So passing the board through the zones using an inline oven is th
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 06 13:02:49 EST 2006 | Chunks
Although rather expensive, you have to realize they had to go through extensive testing to prove their product safe. This probably cost them extensively. So once the formula has been deemed safe, they just pass this cost onto the consumer. Not to
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 25 21:29:08 EDT 2006 | TMC
Thanks for all the replies. Rob . . . that's what I was looking to get feedback on; to see if others can program their reflow ovens so that double sided boards only reflow on top during the second pass. Our oven does have an edge belt conveyer so t
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 09 08:06:07 EDT 2006 | davef
See "IPC-4554 Specification for Immersion Tin Plating for Printed Circuit Boards" 3.2.1 Immersion Tin Thickness. The most common reason for solderability issues with the white tin surface coating during multiple thermal excursions is a thin white ti
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 17 17:17:21 EST 2007 | russ
i would say that you are there already. with 10,000 DPM0 you have a 1% fallout, you are at 99.9 basically. 1 out of a 1000 boards will fail? of course one thing we need to know is how many opportunitites do you count for a chip resistor for exam
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 02 10:06:28 EST 2007 | oldsmtdude
Agilent SP50 rocks for continuous improvement and pass-fail efforts. You'll see variation you never imagined you had prior. But be aware you absolutely have to monitor data and tweak your processes to improve results. Do not jump in and try and use
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 19 17:34:02 EST 2007 | GS
Thank You Pavel and Dave, Unfortunately I do not have IPC-4554. Anyway I 0.6-1.0umm is what I remember, and confirmed by reading also through leterature available on google. I was just going to understand if it possible to obtain more thickness
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 28 23:21:54 EST 2007 | jmelson
Thanks for the data. That looks like the numbers I've seen, but the machine I have bid on (gulp) is an 84 with no suffix. I doubt that changes the dimensions, though. But, what I am trying to find out is if covers and panels can be removed to thin
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 31 12:37:28 EDT 2007 | jdengler
Hi aj, We recently purchased an AOI machine. While doing the first pass research to see which machines to put through a head to head competition I discovered a major improvement in the programming for newer machines. If you buy used, get one that
