Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 10 14:10:38 EST 2002 | Randy Villeneuve
Steve, I wave solder most if not all our boards with selective wave pallets. I did not catch if the solder balls were on top of the board or on the bottom but that will make a difference on what to do to get rid of them. Pallets are good and bad. On
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 16 15:00:20 EST 2004 | glaucon
Simple differences. Both processes require a very similar machine platform, controlled motion, vision fiducial recognition and alignment of a substrate (PCB or hybrid ceramic) to the "image", the image being either a stencil (hence stencil printing)
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 09 09:44:22 EST 2015 | davef
Purpose. This describes setting-up a wave soldering system set-up for a new assembly design or checking a wave solder machine operation with a test board. Applicability. To be used for new design printed circuit assembles and during machine accept
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 20 15:59:15 EDT 2007 | blnorman
We use preprinted labels and laser coding. For PCB we laser mark with CO2 (NdYAG for the aluminum heat spreaders). We either have an epoxy legend to burn out or we burn the solder mask to expose the copper ground plane underneath. Laser is a much
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 05 09:41:50 EDT 2015 | kmots15
For upside down and rotated parts try using the index mark (F6) in the package database for that component, at least then the machine should look for a unique feature on the bottom and if it cannot find it the part will be rejected. For the index ma
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 27 18:37:10 EDT 2007 | gregcr
I'm actually in the process of phasing in direct inkjet marking on my bare boards. The MEK based inks dry almost on contact, and the machines I have use a videojet excel HD printhead. I'm looking forward to see how it works for us. I think it may
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 07 12:57:15 EST 2007 | John S.
Hover Davis makes a feeder that can be fitted to many pick and place machines. Runs about 7k. I've seen print on demand feeders at tradeshows for about 30k. If you've got enough volume, you could also laser etch. There's more capital involved, bu
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 04 08:32:49 EST 2003 | roertner
In my experience AOI's are good for checking machine setup I.E. first piece inspection. After that the only things they will typically catch are wrong parts, reversed parts, missing parts, and tombstones. I would however suggest getting an AOI with a
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 22 17:02:58 EDT 2008 | hegemon
You are on the right track Ismir. Essentially however, as the programmer of the machine, I am the one that creates the PCB with the errors to benchmark the settings for the machine. No secret lab though! :-) Easy enough for most any AOI machine to
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 25 23:23:00 EDT 2021 | llawrence
The QFP pitch is 0.5mm. Pad size is 1.475 x 0.3mm, and the new aperture size is 1.32 x 0.22mm. I'm not sure about whether or not it is lasered, but on the newly ordered stencil I selected the polishing option. Looks like the pad width is already 2/3
