Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 13 09:40:36 EDT 2006 | grantp
Hi, Your right guys, and we turned off the chip wave, and most of the problem went away. It looks much better, and we are getting a slight bridging on a USB connector at the front edge of the PCB and a little adhesion, but not any where as much as w
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 14 18:07:11 EDT 2006 | grantp
Hi, Thanks for all the help guys, and we did a bunch of things to get it working. We raised the pump speed, and also went to a water based flux, which helped a lot. We also reduce pre heat as we were burning off the flux. It's doing really nice jo
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 12 13:08:20 EDT 2006 | jbrower
Howdy Bolos, My question to you is why do you feel the need to buy new equipment? We've changed over our processes to lead free and used our existing equipment. Heller 1500 (5 zone convection reflow) Electrovert econopak (wave solder) Honestly we hav
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 12 07:42:56 EDT 2006 | brian.perry@suntroncorp.com
We are placing a gold plated device (LCC) to a NiAu PCB using a SnPb No-clean solder. We're noticing quite a bit of difficulty with reliable joints (intermittent connectivity) and if we have to rework a particular device, adjacent devices of this sa
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 12 09:42:49 EDT 2006 | mmjm_1099
Hello all, I am having an issue with my QP341 when it reads fiducials. It will be running fine than it will freeze when it goes to read a fid. When I reset the QP and it seems to work fine for a little bit than it will repeat itself and freeze up aga
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 12 11:53:19 EDT 2006 | Rob
No Pat, it's not the craziest piece of EU legislation - that has to go to one of the following: Common Agricultural Policy Common Fisheries Policy or my favourate - The GI list The GI list stops anyone else in Europe (& aiming for the world!) maki
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 14 10:12:33 EDT 2006 | Board House
Hi all, The majority of score machines used today have a top cutting wheel and bottom cutting wheel. This way they can score a line in one pass and saves on programming time, Panels are typically scored in one direction first and then the panel is r
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 13 04:46:15 EDT 2006 | AR
Has anybody else noticed a problem with Assembl�on's mechanical 12 mm feeders, with 4 mm pitch? We are experiencing grave pickup problems with a MELF diode packed this way and fed with this type of feeder. If I attach a hefty weight to the blister ta
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 14 15:32:16 EDT 2006 | pms
We have recently started building assemblies containing 0402 components (argggg!!). Were using the TM8FC magazines and are seeing alot of miss-picks on the 0402 components. When the feeder advances the part, the part can; jump out of the tape, or tur
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 15 06:40:12 EDT 2006 | CL
Good Morning Paul, We are using the linear magazines as well as the old style and are processing 0402 and 0201's. I do have to say that the Agilis magazines work much better for smaller parts. Just make sure that you have the correct size clip for t
