Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 08 09:38:35 EST 2001 | blnorman
We've been using pre-printed labels on our PCB's for years, with 8 - 10 hours a week down time associated with them. Last October we put a CO2 laser marker on one of our lines. In 6 months we've had a total of 30 minutes down time. We use a 2D b
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 16 11:52:31 EST 2001 | J.D. of Panasonic
Ed, You certainly are ready for some equipment. I noticed in your message that you mentioned cost three times. So it is a very big issue to you. What everything depends on is where you see your company going in the next few years. Do you want
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 11 22:05:58 EDT 2001 | davef
OA pastes are more hydroscopic than NC pastes. Hydroscopic. The capacity of a material to absorb and retain moisture from the ambient air. Sometimes this is compounded if you remove paste from the frig and let it warm to room temperature, because
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 23 17:30:08 EDT 2001 | davef
Step 1: Print paste on the board, skip placement, reflow the board, check solderability. Step 2: Goto Step 1. White Tin Solderability: The most common reason for solderability issues with the white tin surface coating during multiple thermal excur
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 26 13:56:08 EDT 2000 | ptvianc
Hello: Pre-baking laminates should only be performed:(1) to meet contractual agreements or (2) in response to an actual defect that can be traced to PWB water absortion. Besides the fact that a pre-bake is an enormous process "bottleneck," it also
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 20 12:49:05 EDT 2000 | Bob Willis
So far on all my trials on PIHR I have only used standard products as the paste is defined by the printing requirements for fine pitch etc. As most people will have seen you just get a heap more residues with this process and even more with lead free
Electronics Forum | Thu May 24 09:11:12 EDT 2001 | Grant Petty
Hi, I would agree. We purchased a TP9 just the slow machine, but we were a small company at the time, and it worked fantastic. Almost no maintenance, and it's a dream to changeover. The serivce in Australia is also very good, but that does not appl
Electronics Forum | Wed May 09 17:26:57 EDT 2001 | davef
Awww, don beso tuff on ursef!!! It sounds like you�re thinking correctly with what you�ve done, but it�s possible that the test you ran did not represent your actual production environment as well as you would have liked. So, you just need to "cran
Electronics Forum | Mon May 14 17:12:20 EDT 2001 | davef
Continuing along the path that Brian took ... IPC-7525 gives design guideline for stepped stencils. It goes something like: * Stepped area SB GT 25 thou from pads located on the greatest thickness of the stencil * Pads in stepped area SB GT 35 tho
Electronics Forum | Mon May 21 17:34:22 EDT 2001 | davef
Continuing the line of Michael's, the previous poster, comments ... The more Krispy Kremes, the better. Yeth!!! The more beer, the better. Yeth!!! The more epoxy, the better. Uh, I don think so!!! We look at this from a papa bear, mama bear, bab
