Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 23 12:49:10 EST 2010 | gregp
Dilbert is correct. The CS-400E machine is the machine of choice. The component insertions are light guided, the components are automatically presented to the operator and the leads are automatically cut and clinched at programmable lead length and
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 11 10:59:09 EST 2010 | sumote
I am having some trouble finding an ESD safe wash basket liner. The trouble isn't finding someone who sells a product, the problem is all 3 products I have evaluated fail testing. All 3 were generators in excess of 2kv with 1 hitting over 4kv! This i
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 12 09:21:43 EST 2010 | petep
How are companies handling lot tracking of parts, down to the serial number of the PCBA on which each component is being placed? We have customers who are needing information on Mfg. Lot numbers on mission critical product in the event of Manufact
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 16 11:50:54 EST 2010 | remullis
I am currently placing LED's with a RAD 5 machine and developed cutting problems with a specific LED. I am not having problems with other similiar LED's where only the color is different. After dispensing to the clip all is well. After going through
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 19 14:31:07 EST 2010 | scottp
Whether or not some fraction of their products are Pb free is irrelevant to the fact that people with absolutely no inside knowledge are out there speculating that Pb free is the root cause of Toyota's current problems. I don't like Pb free any more
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 17 14:45:40 EST 2010 | dcell_1t
Is your oven adjusted correctly for temperature > and blower and conveyor speed? As far as blower settings it only has a Hi-Mid-Low setting (is a heller 1809), and we have been working with all at Hi speed since line was started (1.5 year ago). Co
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 19 20:45:07 EST 2010 | dcell_1t
Nice one the baseball glove trick, but my boss wasn't in the mood for that (it wasn't even funny to him...) anyhow convection turbines were checked on the oven and they found that the bearings on the motor was too loose, then 2 motors were replaced,
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 25 20:25:16 EST 2010 | dean
Good question, the answer as of right now is yes. Our machine is only able to go down to 0402 parts before the surface tension of the solder begins to cause issues with maintaining the placement position of the part on the nozzle. However, we are dev
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 19 11:17:29 EST 2010 | kpm135
When I try to load a board in our MPM UP2000 HiE I get the following error "Z axis software limit". The Z axis will move up and down freely, I re-calibrated it and reprogrammed the board and the error continues. Has anyone else run into this issue an
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 22 10:19:57 EST 2010 | swag
Check/reseat all connections on axis driver card and from driver card to step motor. On older MpM's it is common to get a bad connection on the connector for axis driver power and blow components on your driver board. Reseating these connectors mig
