Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 16 04:34:54 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| | One of the DFM suggestions I've seen is to remove the solder mask web, i.e. the mask between pads on 20-mil QFP devices. The rational is that if the mask is thicker than the pad the mask can prevent the stencil from making intimate contact with
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 16 04:47:04 EDT 1999 | Charles Stringer
| | | One of the DFM suggestions I've seen is to remove the solder mask web, i.e. the mask between pads on 20-mil QFP devices. The rational is that if the mask is thicker than the pad the mask can prevent the stencil from making intimate contact wit
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 16 16:54:57 EDT 1999 | Scott Cook
| One of the DFM suggestions I've seen is to remove the solder mask web, i.e. the mask between pads on 20-mil QFP devices. The rational is that if the mask is thicker than the pad the mask can prevent the stencil from making intimate contact with th
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 14 01:21:29 EDT 1999 | Dean
| | Has anybody adopted the method of stencil printing with the board at a 45 degree angle to the squeegee blade? What are the benefits and drawbacks? I've heard you get better fine pitch results. | | | | TX | | Mark | | | I have used thetechni
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 17 10:21:32 EDT 1999 | Steve A
It may be worth mentioning to those that do not have the ability to rotate the PCB, that some folks adjust their aperture design on fine pitch leads by increasing the aperture size for those leads parallel to the X axis, thus allowing consistent volu
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 05 11:15:39 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| | | | | | | | | Hello, | | If you are using no-clean and they are entrapped in the flux it is also IPC accepted but i havent found a customer yet who agrees with that. Im sure you have checked your profile. I had the same problem with chip compon
Electronics Forum | Fri May 21 15:23:24 EDT 1999 | JohnW
| | Has anyone had any experience or data using vibration during the reflow process. | | We introduced a vibration device attached to the fixed rail on a Vitronics reflow oven. The reason was to prevent skewing on large PLCC devices. The process work
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 30 06:08:23 EDT 1999 | Scott Davies
Hi all, We're starting up tests for pin-to-paste and, well, things could be better. We're testing different pastes and we're testing different apertures rules and, well, we're still testing. It's coming close and we're getting pretty good joint
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 26 17:31:14 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| Hey MoonMan, | | Did I catch in one of your fabulous threads that you're using Tetra stencils? I'm anxious to find out how you're liking them. | | We we're all set up to go to Tetras, then mgt decided to close down our factory - Dooop! "Foiled"
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 23 14:59:14 EDT 1999 | Chrys Shea
| Has anyone had trouble waving and gluing 0603 R's and C's? At my company, our designers have "opened the floodgates" on bottom-side 0603's. | | We've got an EPK+ with rotary chip and omega wave but can't seem to get skip-free soldering on these g