Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 09 05:18:07 EDT 2006 | Rob
Hi Shawn, that you're baking the components makes me think that they are either old, or have been sitting around for a while (or none of the above & you are really dilligent!) Whilst baking will sort out the MSD issues (such as popcorning) it will
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 13 17:16:44 EDT 2006 | slthomas
"I believe I was the one who stated in an old post that prying the leads is rediculous." I have been down this road as well. The prez of my previous employer decided that because he could pry .012" leads off the pads with a screwdriver that we had a
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 09 12:51:52 EDT 2006 | flipit
You can not solder to 30 micro inches of gold over nickel and certainly not 80 microns. You can not with tin lead solder or SAC305 anyway. The upper limit is between 6 and 10 micro inches of gold. This is what ENIG plates to. If you solder to gre
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 09 12:35:00 EDT 2006 | G. eisner
We are finding this diode not reflowing well. We are having tombstoning issues with this part and only this part on different pcbs. The main thing we find is that under a scope there is blow outs as in air bubbles that look like they have exploded. I
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 | 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 | Thu Jun 15 13:20:12 EDT 2006 | jem
Hello All Has anybody used or know of ROHS compliant marking Ink? In particular the permanent ink (bought in little container and used on the felt stamp pads)that QC inspectors use to stamp off a PCB after inspection. We use a trodat industrial ink
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 20 10:15:44 EDT 2006 | samir
Again, the verdict is mixed here as well, but from the seminars, white papers, etc. the consensus seems to be that Pb BGA's are not compatible in a Pb-Free RoHS Process...but... Pb-Free SAC BGA's are compatible in a Sn-Pb process as long as your pro
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 26 10:58:16 EDT 2006 | J.E.M.
Question for anyone using panasonic super thin surface mount light touch switches EVQ-PLDA15. The above part has a recommended land pattern with two gnd pads.There is a little tab on each side of the part that i assume is suspose to make contact wit
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 29 08:31:03 EDT 2006 | MarkM.
Hello all, I have a dilemma at the moment with my CP4 pick and place positions. I get alot of parts in the rear of the machine and inside. I also as of late starting to get parts flying around on the boards once in awhile. I have checked pick positi
