Electronics Forum | Fri May 01 14:44:26 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| I've never seen this before. Today, I got this tombstoning on Tantalum Capacitors (Okay, I saw that before) | Here's the part that seems weird to me: | -They didn't tombstone onto a termination - they went onto their sides! That's right, both ter
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 16 22:32:15 EDT 2000 | Dave F
John: It's easy to put parts in the wrong place!!! Isn't it? Starting at the beginning: check the part at incoming inspection ... measure the value upon receiving the part, if it's possible. Verify the marking on the part. Next: Prevent things f
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 13 07:53:40 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | Couple of questions. | | 1) Are we talking alumina substrates as the ceramic material? | | 2) Are we co-firing gold as the conductors on the substrate surface? | | 3) In other words, is this a hybrid thick film circuit? | | 4) If so, how large or
Electronics Forum | Fri May 01 14:00:59 EDT 1998 | Chrys
I've never seen this before. Today, I got this tombstoning on Tantalum Capacitors (Okay, I saw that before) Here's the part that seems weird to me: -They didn't tombstone onto a termination - they went onto their sides! That's right, both terminati
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 02 16:49:14 EST 2007 | dyoungquist
I am looking for data on the yield of printed circuit board assemblies so that I can judge if our SMT line is performing up to typical industry standards. Following I will describe the details of the assembly and what our yield has been. Each board
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 10 20:06:43 EST 2007 | SSS
I've been assembling thousands of boards for dozens of customers over the past 5 years with 0402 chip components. 85% can happen very easily even with newer equipment. Defect challanges with 0402 packages is almost always tombstoning. Capacitors abou
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 15 03:11:33 EDT 1999 | Charles Stringer
| | | Hi, | | | | | | Recently encountered missing components problem at the SMT process. | | | Among 13 chip components from the same part number mounted on the board, only 4 ( located in a same row and next to each other) were missing after post r
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 12 16:33:52 EDT 1999 | JohnW
| | Our company is experiencing cracked caps at our pick and place operations. The caps are being placed onto epoxy dots for subsequent wave solder operations. At present, be have set the pressure of the head at 2 in/lbs. This being down from manuf
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 03 20:54:57 EST 2002 | davef
Q1:A picture of the sectioned MLCC would be nice. A1: I don't think I can post pics in this (if anyone knows otherwise let me know), so I will email them to anyone who's curious. R1: You�re correct. You cannot post pix on SMTnet. Please email me t
Electronics Forum | Fri May 01 20:12:29 EDT 1998 | Steve Gregory
| I've never seen this before. Today, I got this tombstoning on Tantalum Capacitors (Okay, I saw that before) | Here's the part that seems weird to me: | -They didn't tombstone onto a termination - they went onto their sides! That's right, both ter