Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 06 17:50:39 EST 1999 | Kantesh Doss
Christopher: Thank you for sharing your experience about the DPAK. Yes, out part has a heat sink at the bottom. Our stencil opening was 7 mils (in both X and Y) smaller than the pad size excepting that the stencil opening consisted of a series of zeb
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 12 10:00:42 EST 1999 | Dave F
Edmund, following-on from Wolfy: Back in the old days, anyone who could spell "sodder" considered "bright and shiny connections" GOOD and "dull and grainy connections" BAD. Now, "dull and grainy" connections can be either GOOD or BAD, depending on
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 11 14:13:57 EST 1999 | Dave F
Thomas: From what you're telling us, you seem to be thinking correctly: 1 Paste should not spread appreciably in preheat 2 Something has changed, because you've not had this problem, until recently Two things to consider: 1 Has any thing changed
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 08 09:45:29 EST 1999 | John Burris
Having a big problem waving these puppies, hope someone can help. I've got an 8 pin mini-din connector (like a PS/2 connector with two more pins) that has two mounting pins on each side. During wave, at least half the lot has shorts from the ground p
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 25 14:48:29 EDT 1999 | William
All, I am having a problem with joints being soft after SMT. Especially 25 mil and smaller parts. It seems as though you can slide the leads right off of the solder. It takes only about 30-40 oz. of compression at 45 deg. to move leads off of join
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 12 04:33:15 EDT 1999 | Brian
| | | We have three buckets filled with leftover solder paste from our screen printing process. Kester has informed me that they no longer take paste, but only dross and pot dumpings. Does anyone know if there's someplace I can recycle this, or am
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 07 16:57:02 EDT 1999 | Glenn Robertson
| | I have a board, 4 spacers needed to be soldered on the board | | first with the normal 62Sn37Pb alloy. Then, capacitors are manually soldered on the boards. The density of the board is quite high. If we wave soldered capacitors first, there wi
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 08 08:26:03 EDT 1999 | Carol Zhang
| | | I have a board, 4 spacers needed to be soldered on the board | | | first with the normal 62Sn37Pb alloy. Then, capacitors are manually soldered on the boards. The density of the board is quite high. If we wave soldered capacitors first, ther
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 13 12:12:04 EDT 1999 | Bill Haynes
Hello Morris, I hope that my superiors don't see your message or they might have me go through all of that to calculate my cost per part mounted. One of the things that has helped me out considerably is an Accounting report that gives me all
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 28 10:29:11 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| Dear all, | | We've got a curious problem. We have had a major problem with BGA's occasionally being placed one to several rows or columns off the pads. We are using Universal's GSM2 platform for our general purpose placements. Our Universal re
