Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 01 20:40:03 EDT 2011 | mikeincal
What may be happening is an early trigger of your vacuum sensors during production due to a clogged tip or vacuum line in the head. What happens during production is that the Y axis gets into position, and then the vacuum sensor input is monitored on
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 01 10:06:00 EDT 2011 | davef
Humiseal says: Typically, there are three main approaches to avoid coating wicking into press-fit connectors (and other keep out areas). Wicking is a phenomenon caused by a combination of low viscosity of conformal coating material and strong capilla
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 01 12:33:26 EDT 2011 | davef
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Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 03 10:11:20 EDT 2011 | remullis
I am being asked by management to setup one piece flow through every operation. We have SMT,DIP,RAD,AX,MANU,WAVE, Quite a bit of hand soldering, Post Inspection, AOI,CLEANING,BARCODING then out the door. We have rougly 60 different products with most
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 10 10:45:32 EST 2011 | aqueous
The use of IPA in automated defluxing systems is nearly extinct for the following reasons: 1. IPA is flammable. In a spray-in-air environment, the already low flashpoint is even lower. 2. IPA is not a great solvent. There are specific containme
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 11 13:52:05 EST 2011 | SheanDalton
What is the size of the low standoff components you find trace wash effluent? and, what is the gap from the board to the underside of the component? If your component has a very low standoff, and/or, a wide footprint, you may want to consider findi
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 16 17:30:29 EST 2011 | olddog
Hi again Bobpan, One thing I noticed when I pulled the z-rod to inspect it was that it was "bearly" finger tight. When I replaced it, I snugged it a bit better (not overtightening). After resuming setting up additioanl placements (this board requires
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 17 14:33:02 EST 2011 | olddog
Thanks again Bobpan for all of your help. I hope some of my questions are dumb ones. Regarding "first", the QA error 0, you were right. In checking the setup, for some reason theta was 65227 instead of the 0 that I thought I had set. Regarding "sec
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 17 15:57:41 EST 2011 | olddog
Hi Bobpan, Regarding "second", the results of the test are no difference - still rejects the part. I tried 2 mils, 3 mils, 5 mils, 7 & 9. I changed the tolerances fron about 15% to 20%+. By the way, I did put on the new nozzle and it is still the sa
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 17 17:44:19 EST 2011 | bobpan
Tim, 1. You dont need the vacuum verify if the quadalign is working properly. If you have the part quad-aligned and dont have alignment type at 0 it will never 'not' place a part. More or less...the vac verify was needed for the chucking machine (3c)
