Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 10 14:10:38 EST 2002 | Randy Villeneuve
Steve, I wave solder most if not all our boards with selective wave pallets. I did not catch if the solder balls were on top of the board or on the bottom but that will make a difference on what to do to get rid of them. Pallets are good and bad. On
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 30 21:55:27 EST 2003 | johnwnz
Now I've checked the archives on this and found the starts of an answer but not much else, but then that posting was a while ago and I though there would be some more data now. So here's the question: who, if anyone is placeign Pb-free BGA's (ideally
Electronics Forum | Wed May 05 14:37:58 EDT 2004 | Gaz
I'm not in production, but I do repairs by replacing CSP & LGA components on PCB's. Our components are supplied sealed in packs of 5 with a humidity indicator card and desiccant. I recently failed an audit by the company I do the work for because th
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 24 18:21:22 EST 2006 | fredc
I have some old Fuji windmills here and I checked the usefull travel. It is approxiamately 1.5mm, the nozzles are suposed to have .3mm "preload" wich will take away from the usable overtravel. The windmill I checked is a reject that from when we rebu
Electronics Forum | Fri May 13 16:23:03 EDT 2005 | patrickbruneel
PR What you're up against is the usual bottom line manufacturing "cost" I have no direct experience with CEI, but I have experience competing with low labor cost. I have to disagree with Russ that Singapore cant handle high mix low volume because t
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 08 03:44:28 EST 2006 | fctassembly
Hello Amol, I continue to be amazed at the surprise engineers have on discovering that a non-eutectic alloy such as SAC305 displays micro-cracking and rough joints in a soldering process. There was a reason the electronics industry chose to use eutec
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 23 22:26:53 EST 2006 | Joseph
Dear all, Referring comment from Mr. Jack,IPC director certification & assembly technology, the term "fillet tearing" is too broad. Cracks or fractures in the required fillet area, with SnPb or LF alloy and whether you call it tearing or not, is a D
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 27 21:17:35 EDT 2007 | davef
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Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 11 11:34:52 EDT 2008 | patrickbruneel
Interesting observation Manuel. I will be blamed again for crying wolf but look below a lot more defects will soon see the daylight all related to lead-free. This information was posted at the tin whisker forum by Bob Landman of H&L Instruments.
Electronics Forum | Wed May 25 15:10:21 EDT 2011 | brockltd
As the Americas distributor, there's a chance that I'm severly biased here but even with that, you should check out the Cluso Vision System for FAI. I've worked with many AOI platforms over the years, back even when each machine shipped with it's own
