Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 02 17:45:46 EST 1998 | ChrisK
In my experience, solder balls are normally caused by only a few things. In order of likelyhood: 1) Water based fluxes (VOC-Free)not having the water carrier completely dried from the board before going into the solder. I.E, too fast conveyor spee
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 23 18:13:53 EDT 1998 | Dave f
| I am looking for detailed information on the SECS 2 protocol that is part of the SEMI General Equipment Module interface. I was not able to get detailed information from the SEMI web site and was not able to find anything on the web. | | I am look
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 16 08:47:58 EDT 1998 | Scott Cook
John, I'll throw my bit of confusion into the pot, here. Your limited floorspace, coupled with your technology mix vs. volume mix narrows the scope of your search. You don't say what your budget is, or whether you are looking for speed. I'll give y
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 16 13:11:49 EDT 1998 | Steve A
The Kyzen product was brought to my attention from a chemist at Kester solders when I asked him what could remove no clean residue from a PCB that had been built weeks earlier. We soaked it in the Kyzen for 8 minutes and ran the board through the aq
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 06 17:17:44 EDT 1998 | Chrys
| We are experiencing poor wetting on various components placed on a PCB with En-Tek coating. Is anyone else experiencing simular problems ? We have the following questions: | | 1. How can the thickness of the En-tek coating be measured? | 2. Is En
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 17 10:45:27 EDT 1998 | Justin Medernach
| We have problems with voids when we solder lids to | ceramic flatpackages. | The sealring of the package is gold(100 micro inches or 2.5 micro meters)with a underlayer of Nickel | The solder is attached to the lid (preform) and the solder material
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 15 19:54:13 EDT 1998 | Wayne Bracy
| Dear Dynapace and those who responded: | Sorry we were not quick enough to delete this ad. However, this gives us a chance to discuss with both users and vendors on ways to facilatate the desemination of product informtion other than via the Forum
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 15 11:04:33 EDT 1998 | Jim Price
| We are a small contract assembly shop hand placing SMT. We recently received a large contract for SMD that will require placement rates of at least 6,000 CPH. I am looking at Fuji, Mydata, Quad, and Zevatech. I have little experience with automated
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 04 09:33:40 EDT 1998 | Stefan W.
| I need advice for locating 23 Gull wing LED's (all in a straight line) in the x,y, and z axis for a SMT PCB. It is a Hewlett Packard LED (P/N HMLA-QH00-01). The application uses a CCD to detect the position of a ball which floats in a resevior fo
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 09 10:02:46 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | I am in need of possible causes and solutions to capacitors that are failing in the field. | | | Are there issues in our process that need to be | | | checked? | | | Some people said the problems are due to improper | | | storage. Others sa
