Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 30 21:23:44 EST 2000 | Dave F
Design more products and get wealthy. Don't waste your time and energy in areas that others are accomplished. A friend designs boards, sells $10M [what that is in euro, funny money, I don't know or care] of them a year, with a company of five [in
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 28 21:07:44 EST 2000 | Alvin K
Gold is porous and spots on gold plated PCBs is one of the drawbacks of using gold as a solderability protector. Base Nickel exposure seems to be the cause of this and is aggravated when the gold thickness is less than what it should be. I agree with
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 20 06:51:00 EST 2000 | Daniel Carlsson
Does anyone have information regarding: -Moisture level (wt%) that may cause delamination in PCB�s. -Baking time and temperature if using a Vacuum Drying Cabinett and if using an air oven. (What I�m most interested of is Poly-Imid-Aramid.) -Are ther
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 27 17:47:23 EST 2000 | Dave F
Gyver: Lemme take a wack [if you�ll excuse the expression, given direction of the later discussion] at your questions. Q1. Will the baking of BGA or PCB cause more oxidation before the SMT process? A1. It certainly will not cause less oxidation,
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 16 18:19:10 EST 2000 | Dave F
We want to improve our process for accepting SMT solder paste stencils received from suppliers. Our process: * E-mail CAD aperatures to supplier with "readme" giving specific fabrication instructions to the supplier. * Receive stencil from the suppl
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 21 15:49:01 EST 2000 | CAL
Dave- this may not be much current help but for future needs: IPC-7525 Stencil Design Guidelines is due out real soon. Check with IPC on its status, last I heard it was in interim Final.What is nice about this Doccument is that it also covers Pin_Thr
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 06 16:30:15 EST 2000 | James
Hi all, I am trying to find websites for inline aqueous cleaning equipment. I have found Trek, Austin America, Electrovert, and Aqueous Technologies. I can't seem to find any others. If anyone knows urls for others I would appreciate it. And yes
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 02 21:15:34 EST 2000 | Thomas Ravener
You need to contact several different providers of alternative solutions. Ask them what current fair market value for your equipment would be if it were sold to an end user (customer). You will definitely receive a higher ROI from an end user than a
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 31 17:01:22 EST 2000 | Anders Benson
What defines the Cadillacs and BMW's of board handling equipment? This industry seems to meet conditions for being commodity, and it is difficult to differentiate one line from another. But talking to people, alot of the same names come up. My the
Electronics Forum | Sat Oct 28 13:28:17 EDT 2000 | Ramon I Garcia C
Hi guys: I have IPII and MPM UP2000 not programable head, I need process BGA, but I never had been process it, I want to know "if I can run it, if not, what I need to do" Please give me some tips, and excuse my english. Ramon.