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
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 29 21:52:13 EDT 2006 | grantp
Hi, Ok I am a little confused about an aspect of RoHS as I just heard some comments from a major manufacture that it's ok for a dealer of a product to ship a NON RoHS product to a customer after July, but you cannot distribute a NON RoHS product to
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 30 20:46:03 EDT 2006 | johnwnz
individual components are not part of the RoHS directive so Dave is right part suppliers can ship them forever, they may not be able to sell them to anyone, well not legit anyway. Distribution of manufactured goods that are already in a warehouse in
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 03 00:03:11 EDT 2006 | grantp
Hi, I found accuracy issues with MYDATA's but your's seem a bit excessive, and might be something else. I often found when setting up a board that was panalised that if it was done wrong, you would get a slight error on one side of the panel because
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 04 10:48:08 EDT 2006 | Rob
Hi Piet, We looked into this too at some length (we do a lot of FPGA and 16 & 32 bit micro designs) and every semi auto machine we checked out was to be fair, crap. Especially on the number & type of devices you could sucessfully handle, set up & a
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 10 16:00:43 EDT 2006 | samir
QE's are the guys that sit in meetings asking the process guys --- "Uhhmmmm....my pie chart here says that we have 11 solder shorts on U1 for the week. WHAT'RE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT?" Unfortunately, most QE's dress nice, are tall, have gelled slic
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 12 23:29:23 EDT 2006 | KEN
Ah yes Mechanical Engineers. My previous company hired one Fresh out of College. Ink was still wet on his B.S. degree when he entered the shop. I passed by his desk. He had a CAD drawing on the monitor which he was feverously working on. It showe
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 13 00:45:15 EDT 2006 | donb
Haha, I have so many of these stories... where to start? My favourite was a few years back, we had a new mechanical engineer fresh out of university. As a part of his new role, he was purchasing tools & equipment for the maintenance workshop. After
