Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 23 08:42:25 EDT 2002 | bdoyle
I have performed many insourcing vs. outsourcing analyses. The following are the key issues that are normally evaluated: Cycle time requirements for product development and manufacturing Cost of manufacturing (in-house vs. subcontracted) Inve
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 13 13:26:34 EDT 2002 | dougt
If it's not blowing the fuse in the car then I guess it wasn't drawing a huge amount of current. Check the power wires going into the radio and look for something loose. My first guess is your loosing voltage across a bad connection somewhere and a
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 17 00:40:39 EDT 2002 | yngwie
Hi all Experts, Desperately need your help on the following questions on Via in Pad and want to understand each of them wrt : - complete Via in pad - partial encroachment - via partially in pad 1) What is the general feel for via in pad for upcom
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 17 12:38:17 EDT 2002 | stepheno
If you have a newer style MPA like the MPA-G3, check out http://www.hoverdavis.com/Products/mpp/mpp.htm I find them much better than the panasonic feeders. You may have to set pitch to 2 or 3 because of timeing issues, or you can change the NC progr
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 17 15:47:42 EDT 2002 | stepheno
Where I worked previously we had some boards with a couple 15 mil pitch parts. The first batch we got all had undersized pads. We had lots of bridging. We had less bridging with bigger pads. The ball size in the paste makes a bigger diffence regar
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 18 12:35:56 EDT 2002 | stepheno
Fourth - > back to design of PCB. Are there solder dams of > mask between the pads? If yes, that helps. If > not, pay close attention to stencil aperture > width and be sure that the aperture deposits less > paste by 1-2 mils per pad, centered o
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 18 16:56:55 EDT 2002 | stockley
I started writing a long winded explanation about SMEMA and realised that it is just as easy to write about this as it is to talk about it on the phone. It just so happens that I have recently gone through this process so I believe that your vendor
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 24 07:32:58 EDT 2002 | cyber_wolf
Pete: It is a Panasonic Camera. MPM tells me that they no longer sell parts for that vision system, and in order to fix this problem I have to do a vision up-grade. The upgrade is over 20K if I remember correctly. That is not going to happen. I hav
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 20 17:41:09 EDT 2002 | davef
Neither. It would be better if the person posting thread said, "I searched the fine SMTnet Archives, but couldn't find an answer to my question. Now, here's what I'd like to know ... " Barring that, it would be better to start a new thread, becaus
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 26 11:24:47 EDT 2002 | kenbliss
Hi DaveF and Brian Doyle Here is my two cents, and a change in my previosuly posted thoughts about control. Before we all go wild with alot of police work and programming, how about simply posting basic forum rules at the top of the main conference
