Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 20 11:44:41 EDT 2008 | jdumont
Good morning all, we have been having some random intermittent connections on some BGAs lately on ENIG finished boards. Can you take a quick look at this picture (link) and let me know if it looks like a possible black pad occurrence? The picture sh
Electronics Forum | Sun Oct 26 17:58:15 EDT 2008 | inge_fi
Hi Tony_D, thanks a lot for your answer! Yes I'd want to follow your advice, but Here in Italy I really don't find a Mirtec distributor yet. Also for me the defect coverage is a basic feature for the AOI and also in my company we have low volume high
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 28 20:26:53 EDT 2008 | fishingfool
Dominik, Pixel size should not be the main criteria for selecting an AOI. I have a customer that has 2 MVP and they say the solder test are good but part reconigtion is not so good. You also say you need some flexibility on software. I also have
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 29 14:13:48 EDT 2008 | andrew_11
Hello Dominik, I recently ended up purchasing a MIRTEC MV-3 AOI System. In looking at different manufacturers I realized that there were two philosophies to inspecting boards, Image based and Rules Based. When I explored both technologies I found ou
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 08 17:12:08 EST 2008 | rway
Hello Dominik, If you are inspecting 01005 parts, than pixel size is important and should be considered in your evaluation. I think 6.5um may be a little over-kill and probably not necessary, especially based on the price. Why are you having to re
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 31 06:55:35 EDT 2008 | andrzej
Answer on point 2 - I understand you send him gerbers of single PCB (?). In most cases you have panelized PCBs so to avoid problems with stencil first you should order PCBs and ASK your PCB supplier to send you back his gerbers of panel. There are so
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 30 11:34:51 EDT 2008 | davem
Guys, So I recently started working for a small CM in Southern N.H. We currently use 2 Magic Chef Mini wine friges to store the solder paste (63/37, RoHS). I've been monitoring the room temp (and humidity) and the frige temps all this week. The pro
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 30 15:07:40 EDT 2008 | jemills
Hello I have a new 0402 pad design on a recent board were building in future. On closer look i thought the pad was a thru hole mount , but upon closer inspection the round pads are for 0402 comps. I had a discussion with the engineer and he said
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 30 15:36:18 EDT 2008 | grantp
Hi, Sounds like your engineer does not know what he's doing. We have developed and built hundreds of thousands of boards with normal square pads for 0402, and we just use a 5 thou stencil with 5% reduction and it works well. Decoupling? What is tha
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 30 22:29:58 EDT 2008 | davef
For most applications, a nice square [or rectangle] pad works just fine. Assemblers ship boat loads of boards with these every day. It's reasonable for tight decoupling capacitor requirement applications to use round or radiused pads for components
