Electronics Forum | Sun Feb 24 19:10:17 EST 2008 | larryd
Skill and experiance level of assemblers is critical. High skill and experiance with the type of assembly, print and BOM and hgihlighters. Day labor would be 5 to 10 components for each assembler, already prepped with pictures or drawings showing wh
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 25 11:12:32 EST 2008 | hegemon
It sounds more as though you have a profiling problem primarily, however, if your placement is not square to the board, then you should get your machine setup correct first. After that you can get to the profiling. If the BGA is brought up to tempe
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 28 21:01:09 EST 2008 | davef
Tony: Thanks posting information about your experience with strippers. First, why did you need to strip the entire board? Next, please clarify the following points to expand our knowledge of using Humiseal 1063 Stripper: * How long was the conforma
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 29 08:12:56 EST 2008 | davef
Solder paste suppliers often make recommendations on solder paste handling after removing it from the container [eg, jar, cartridge, etc]. For instance, Multicore Solder Paste Handling Guidelines, September 2004 says: As a general rule, paste that h
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 04 08:56:38 EST 2008 | tonyamenson
I talked to a solder paste chemsist and found out a few things. From above (Dave F) states a test for solder paste involving reflow on a non-wettable surface. Commonly known as the solder ball test this test is performed all the time by paste manufa
Electronics Forum | Sun Mar 09 09:15:21 EDT 2008 | davef
Q1. What kind of labels/ink/sharpe can be used under conformal coating without disolving etc...? A1. While we're not familiar with the conformal coat you have selected, this might help. Label selection: The following chemically durable materials are
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 12 09:02:40 EDT 2008 | davef
Your question implies that you would like to find a way to use the device you received with the BOM, rather than returning the part for the correct item. Given that situation, choices are: * Glue the part on the board bug-up [upside-down] and run jum
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 12 13:16:42 EDT 2008 | ipdisplays
Hi All, I know some of this has been covered - but nothing recent that I could find - so please bear with me... Seems like the used/refurb market is kind of fluid so would like some current thoughts.... I'm looking to setup an inexpensive prototype
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 17 18:37:59 EDT 2008 | aqueous
We manufacture both bulk and localized ionic contamination testers. My answer is from the perspective of the cleanliness testing method. The issue with all bulk ionic contamination testers (Ionagraph, Omegameter, Zero-Ion), is that they test the en
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 18 11:52:38 EDT 2008 | rrpowers
A couple years back we were looking at going to an enclosed solder paste printing process, similar to the ProFlow, Crossflow, or Rheometric Pump. We have older MPM AP25's with a custom transport. Speedline told us that in order to add the RheoPump,
