Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 16 14:51:15 EST 2004 | blnorman
It's driven by those highly technically astute politicians in Europe. IPC has a lead-free forum you can subscribe to and almost to a person in the forum agrees that elimination of lead in solder is assinine. From the automotive end of electronics
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
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 06 16:48:42 EST 2006 | Mario Scalzo
I would be glad to help you eliminate the solder balling and beading that you are seeing. As this is a fairly common defect, I would like to forward you an Application Note that we have developed that explains the cause and possible solutions. Most
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 30 15:07:40 EDT 2008 | jemills
Hello I have a new 0402 pad design on a recent board were building in future. On closer look i thought the pad was a thru hole mount , but upon closer inspection the round pads are for 0402 comps. I had a discussion with the engineer and he said
Electronics Forum | Thu May 02 15:29:19 EDT 2013 | jim_n_hky
I can't answer your specific question on the floor, but I have some suggestions. The equipment manufacturer should be able to provide the floor loading requirements. A structural engineer should be able to translate that into specs for hte constructi
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 28 05:54:04 EST 2018 | robl
You need to look at what other smaller companies are using, the KY machines usually go in multiples into large installations. I've seen a few places with 1 or 2 machines but they are usually running volume of very few board types. In these environm
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 28 15:53:49 EDT 2019 | SMTA-Jon
As a CM, we don’t have a lot of input on the PCB layouts we receive. Some engineers/software packages output the paste layer 1 to 1, some do an across the board reduction, and some set each part up individually with different reductions per footprin
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 28 02:18:03 EDT 2022 | kamedatec
I bought a YV100XG machine with AutoTC (Automatic Tray Feeder), Everything is working except AutoTC, when I active this function, pops up the error that the Servo Motor LZ1 was not found. I changed the control card of the servo motor, checked the wir
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 09 21:40:26 EDT 2002 | ianchan
We are a local enterprise with limited resources, just like you described, so hope this experience sharing helps : we place a production Visual Mechanical Inspection (VMI) inspector at the end of each Reflow Oven area, complete with magnify scope 30
