Electronics Forum | Thu May 08 21:04:43 EDT 2003 | davef
It may seem like a year, but this has been going on for closer to six months. Oh, it's because the administrators at SMTnet think is soooo valuable to us that sales-types have an opportunity to dredge-up and open ancient threads for their self-promo
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 13 17:38:16 EST 2002 | porcher
We had the overhead music from speakers for about three years. When the bickering over station and/or content became too hard to deal with, we stopped all music. Disaster! For the last six years, we have had a policy of no Walkmans for new employees
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 22 10:20:26 EDT 2003 | Stephen
I hate being persnickity, I just am sometimes. You are not being told you "should expect" that variance. You are being told you can't sue them for manufacturing defects if the balls are within that range. That range is way bigger than what they wil
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 16 11:20:09 EDT 2004 | soease
Hi, to profile any type of temperature process, you should try ECD products. I'm used to work with their tool called Super M.O.L.E. Gold, wich is a data logger for six thermocouples that you can run through a reflow oven, for example, and then you c
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 27 09:39:54 EDT 2004 | loz
Hi all, been recently wave soldering some pcbs with no problems and have now noticed what looks like blue residues on some solder joints. We have been running this product for around six months and this is the first time we have seen this. It is rand
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 03 08:42:07 EST 2005 | cyber_wolf
I just ran into a reflow profiling problem with a new assembly that we are processing in SMT. There is a cluster of six or so electrolytic caps that measure approx. .710" wide by .660" tall. They are spaced .100" or so apart. When I run a profile, t
Electronics Forum | Fri May 27 08:00:29 EDT 2005 | eb
Thanks for the responses. Like I said, I'm familiar with circuit cam and I already know what it can do. The problem is the pricing like some of the others have said. Have any of you used both circuit cam and any of the other softwares listed ( sony t
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 13 11:56:29 EDT 2005 | patrickbruneel
Hi All, There are IPC drafts in circulation IPC-1751, Generic Requirements for Declaration Process Management and IPC-1752, Materials Declaration Management. To me it looks like the regulations become more tolerable towards lead in solder Lead in s
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 13 06:56:27 EST 2005 | adanhn
Hi Steve, What I came up with for our Soltec Sigma 6621 is to make a stainless steel wave solder bath insert.The insert with all its components eg. impeller, Chipwave assy, pump shafts, main wave assy etc. I will send for plasma nitride coating.Afer
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 26 10:44:28 EDT 2006 | Brad Courtemanche
Hi larry, don't know if you resolved your problem but if machine is picking part three times, rejecting all three but places number fourth your nozzle pickup is misaligned very slightly. During the first three pickups the nozzle is finally seating it