Electronics Forum | Sat May 27 09:45:52 EDT 2000 | Bob Willis
Many thanks for the name check from John Thorup PIHR can be done very simply and it can provide positive fillets on both sides of the board. I have just finished a line with SDSRS, Simultanouse Double Sided Reflow Soldering thats sodering both sides
Electronics Forum | Tue May 23 13:08:54 EDT 2000 | John Thorup
I second Wolfgang. Welcome, It's good to hear from someone who wants to design something we can build. Another useful resource is the land pattern book from SMT Plus www.smtplus.com 831/438-6116 Also useful are the component mechanicals available (fr
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 11 16:11:06 EDT 2000 | John Thorup
Hello Ashok I can't recall mask damage through normal handling that did not have an adhesion or cure problem as its root cause. Most of our boards arrive shrink packed in groups of 10. We simply pop off the wrap one pack at a time and leave them in
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 06 10:50:20 EDT 2000 | John Thorup
As Ioan says,These components usually come in tubes rather than trays. I can understand why you might want to do this because I have one very low volume but complicated board that has seven programmable PLCCs that I just don't have room for on the m
Electronics Forum | Thu May 03 18:13:40 EDT 2001 | johnthor
what are these kids doing in the dark with band-aids anyway? I'll bet you could get the same effect with Kapton tape (maybe yellow light?) Seriously, I use the IIT proframe Dave mentions down to 25 mil but have gone back to a permanently mounted foil
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 14 10:11:45 EST 2000 | John Thorup
I'll have to go along with Wolfgang as having a good experiance with frameless. We have been using a system from IIT in California for about a year. I was sceptical at first because of this system's X only tensioning but it does work. We use mostl
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 14 11:08:19 EST 1999 | John Thorup
I think you're on the right track Paul. You didn't mention what type of solder mask was used but I'll presume that it was LPI (liquid photo imagable). If development of the image is incomplete some mask can remain where it is unwanted. Sometimes im
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 08 10:25:00 EST 1999 | John Thorup
Hi Ken Given the small mass of the dot I'm guessing that the adhesive is being flash cured by the heat of the board and the resulting semi-solid is unable to release from the nozzle like a liquid thereby causing your strings. Placing components on c
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 13 10:12:45 EST 1999 | John Thorup
Hi Dennis The gold plating on a circuit board is present to protect the nickle plating from corrosion. The layer is so thin that as it goes into solution in the solder it constitutes only a small percentage of the total joint. It is commonly accept
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 03 14:33:18 EST 1999 | John Thorup
Hi Cunli I guess it's too much to hope for that you're back but it's nice that you're still paying attention . I've used the printer friendly version before and it worked fine. However it does't always work. I'm holding Dave F's posting (help with