Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 17 12:07:40 EDT 2001 | davef
We always get pissed-off a preform suppliers when they tell us that we need to do NRE to develop a preform. Is that BS er watt? Ya got this vanilla connector that everyone on the planet uses and we have to pay NRE. It's just a scam. Try Teka Inte
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 01 17:35:04 EST 2001 | davef
A couple of things: * Don�t do it. Securing both the plastic case and the lead to prevent breaking the case seal is very difficult to do while you reform the lead. Just resell the parts and buy the correct parts. * If you will not listen and insist
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 13 06:08:57 EDT 2002 | edahi
guys thanks for the suggestions... DaveF, *Changing paste EricD: Yes we are considering that as a point. Because I believe the paste we are using are in syringe packaged and designed for dispensing. We are using an Indium SMQ75 paste and current
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 13 19:47:05 EDT 2004 | davef
Glue has different mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties than solder. That's why all these very nice no-lead people are furiously trying to gin-up some wacky solder alloy, rather than using glue. Among the papers in the SMTA Knowledge base
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 15 21:29:34 EST 2004 | davef
We�d say that it�s incorrect that ENIG solderability protection cannot be steam aged. It�s true the immersion tin and silver cannot be steam aged. We believe that most of the issues surrounding the poor performance of ENIG after steam aging is attr
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 12 13:17:00 EDT 2005 | patrickbruneel
To all smt neters, In many different threads I have tried to bring awareness of the dangers lead free alloys pose to the reliability of solder connections. Many times those warnings have been waved by unscientific reports (from lead free solder manu
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 10 17:50:10 EST 2005 | Sergei
This is absolutely true. We have spent more than 10.000 man hrs on this, investigating of a fail safe interconnection that need to last more than 50 years in extremely harsh conditions. Tin Whiskers was at our "ten most wanted" list to be solved. Ba
Electronics Forum | Sat May 27 17:21:43 EDT 2006 | smt_guru
Efren, Allow me to make some recommendations. This is my firm's bread and butter, so to speak. Helping startups like yourself achieve their budget objectives, but in the process being innovative and thinking outside of the box. Here are my sugges
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 20 14:58:22 EDT 2006 | smt_guru
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Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 22 06:28:08 EDT 2007 | Hussman
Anyone ever design an external thermocouple that connected back to an enclosed PCB? If so, how did you make the interconnect or solder joint to the board? Did you change metals to a solder friendly material? The problem we have is an external t-
