Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 29 04:14:49 EST 2000 | Marc
Charlie B: You mentioned that you have an air conditioned environment and a RH 0rf 50, baking the boards is predominately done when the history of the PCB delivery and / or previous storage conditions are un known. When I was with a CM, we did this a
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 21 20:25:30 EST 2000 | Dave F
John: What�s the matter? Free gold � good thing for you, bad thing for your supplier. :^) Pre-tinning of gold plated leads is important to: � Prevent gold embrittlement of the solder joint � Determine if the leads are solderable prior to assembly (
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 17 16:39:33 EST 2000 | Larry
We have just installed an omega wave to our W/S machine and are tring to W/S some of our bottom side surface mount components. I am still getting skips on some sot 23's. The component lay out meets all IPC 782 guidelines. I have verified these setti
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 20 18:15:05 EST 2000 | Russ
Larry, SOTs are a wonderful thing to try and wave solder! They are about as nice as Tant caps. I have found that shadowing is usually the biggest problem assuming that the other wave parameters are good, in your case it seems that they are. Couple
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 13 14:41:22 EST 2000 | Boca
By Hot Air Knife I assume (leave it alone Dave F.) that you mean a debridging knife located at the exit end of a wave solder machine. Russ is right, they are not a good substitute for a good process, but once the process (w/o HAK) is developed, it
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 13 14:45:01 EST 2000 | Boca
By Hot Air Knife I assume (leave it alone Dave F.) that you mean a debridging knife located at the exit end of a wave solder machine. Russ is right, they are not a good substitute for a good process, but once the process (w/o HAK) is developed, it
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 24 16:08:54 EST 2000 | Gary
I have the situation where we may need to use a variety of reflow temperatures. It seems that the design engineers want us to try a variety of "unspecified" pastes on the products. For example, the first PCB would be assembled using a higher temperat
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 24 13:28:31 EST 2000 | Dave F
Robert: Ah, opinions are like mothers, everyone has one. Here's mine: 1 Goto the Altera site, get a copy of "AN 114," follow it. Generally, manufacturers are closer to the requirements of their components than others are. 2 Metal showing on the b
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 22 07:59:54 EST 2000 | Hany A. Salam
Hello friends: In a few weeks we will have to assemble PC motherboards. We decided to use to purchase an ICT for testing the semi assembled boards (I mean with only SMD components on). Would anyone kindly like to recommend a SPECIFIC brand or model
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 31 01:41:00 EST 2001 | pjc
Steve, I have no influence over conn design. We paste print-reflow solder two types of connectors. One is a 50 pin IDC w/ 0.5mm lead dia @ 2.54mm lead pitch and a chamfered pointed lead tip. The other is 32 pin DIP w/ 0.36mm lead dia @ 2.54mm pitch