Electronics Forum | Tue May 15 19:56:43 EDT 2001 | davis_brinkley
I have the chance to purchase some Amistar SMT equipment at an extremely good price. I have been in SMT for a while and I am most familiar with older Quads and some Zevatech.I have many questions and concerns about Amistar that hopefully someone can
Electronics Forum | Thu May 17 15:17:42 EDT 2001 | blnorman
Parylene is arguable the best conformal coating there is, unfortunately it's also the most expensive. We had considered using it some time back, but due to environmental and safety issues, we would have had to build a new building to house the proce
Electronics Forum | Mon May 21 12:23:08 EDT 2001 | davis_brinkley
Why would you want AutoProgram for DOS? AutoProgram ver 5.3.2 is avilable from Quad Systems and is supported for using Windows 3.1.1 This is the latest rev for AutoProgram it is not supported for other operating systems because there is no more resea
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 12 17:57:29 EDT 2001 | CyberVilla
Cal, I can only respond by saying that the question relates to one important word "Reliable". If you feel that you have found the special touch to provide accurate and repeatable results, then I applaud your hard work. Also, a counter attack by co
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 06 13:38:15 EDT 2001 | Michael Parker
To expand on Wolfgangs reply, I suggest you contact your local SRT rep. We recently had the same type of problem as yourself. This is the path we followed. Arrange for operator training, for yourself first, then the operators after you get the machi
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 06 16:51:06 EDT 2001 | jax
Unless your placing micro-bga, board edge fiducials on alternating corners will provide more than enough placement correction ( Micro-bga's should also be fine depending on how your equipment maps the board ). The part data and vision recognition nee
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 07 07:11:41 EDT 2001 | stefwitt
8" ). For calculation of the theta angle, the global fiducials should be placed over the diagonal. Component recognition can be improved if your vision system has different light zones. The steep light should be turned off and the flat light turned
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 08 08:53:08 EDT 2001 | onset
Hi our company is currently using a water soluable paste. We have heard that no-clean solder paste has gotten alot better over the years and are thinking about making the switch. Our main concern is that our solder joints will not look as good as t
Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 10 12:30:10 EDT 2001 | procon
Is this a Convection Oven or IR? If convection, you can increase the air velocity in the zones if the oven has this ability. You should do as Dave has explained. If you must use pallets when reflowing your components, you need to profile in the same
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 13 08:25:44 EDT 2001 | ghenning
Is anyone aware of benchmarking data to suggest what is best-in-class (and average) performance for manual visual inspection? We would like to better understand what percentage of defects going into the process will be screened out. This provides us
