Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 23 20:57:13 EDT 1999 | Dean
| Jackie's posting recently and responses to it got me to dondering. First, recollecting, we bought an IR rework station a couple million years ago. It had a IR source on a stand, a bunch of lenses, and Reynolds aluminum foil for shielding near-by
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 16 12:06:29 EDT 1999 | Scott S. Snider
| | | Hi, | | | | | | Can someone pls suggest to me the best reflow temperature setting | | | for a force air convection oven. The details is as follow. | | | 1) Heller 1700s | | | 2) 12 zone---6 top and 6 bot | | | 3) Solder paste --- Qualitek 691
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 11 10:21:03 EDT 1999 | Brian
| Has anyone ever heard of this? I have a Camalot System 5000 and we were in a pinch to produce some prototype boards. We needed Sn62Pb36Ag2-no clean in a dispensing mesh. All I could get my hands on was some Interflux paste in a jar. The formulation
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 11 13:34:58 EDT 1999 | Dave F
(snip) | | You're quite right. However, anyone who uses MeCl in an aerosol spray needs his head examining. I'll go further: if he continues, he will most CERTAINLY need his head, the rest of his CNS and his liver examining a little later on. It has
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 07 11:10:03 EDT 1999 | JohnW
| Could someone give recommendation on the stencil opening for printing epoxy on HAL FR4 PCB for 0805 and 0603 size chips capacitors and resisitors. | My regular stencil manufacturer recommend the following: | Thickness: 8 mils | 0805 opening: Oblong
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 07 11:47:47 EDT 1999 | JohnW
| | | | | | | | | | | | Hello, | | | If you are using no-clean and they are entrapped in the flux it is also IPC accepted but i havent found a customer yet who agrees with that. Im sure you have checked your profile. I had the same problem with chi
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 05 13:03:35 EDT 1999 | Dave Weihrauch
| | | | Has anyone out there tried to parylene coat plastic parts prior to soldering them to a pcb? I'm looking at several potential applications where fewer than 5% of my components on a pcb are plastic, yet from a reliability aspect (environmental
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 06 07:18:48 EDT 1999 | Graham Naisbitt
| | | | | Has anyone out there tried to parylene coat plastic parts prior to soldering them to a pcb? I'm looking at several potential applications where fewer than 5% of my components on a pcb are plastic, yet from a reliability aspect (environmenta
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 04 12:35:15 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| | | | I have been asked to supply a maximum shelf life for our assemblied PCB's. I realise this is dependent on so many factors- temperature, humidity, no of layers etc. But does anyone have a formulae for calculating shelf life, or does anyone kno
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 25 01:11:31 EDT 1999 | Vinesh Gandhi
| | | Recently, there has been an upsurge in the Pin Hole/Blow Hole problem in our wave soldering process. We are baking the PCBs for 2 Hrs. at 125 degree C. The Wave Soldering profile seems to be O.K. Still the problem is persistent. Can somebody