Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 17 10:27:45 EDT 2002 | bdoyle
Guys, Everyone who posts here works for a company. I get emails occaisionally from people who are not pleased with the way the forum is progressing lately. If someone has a problem and a person offers solutions why is that bad? If an answer is p
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 13 20:55:46 EDT 2002 | russ
Having just gine through a similar problem myself (with much less equip.) Here are a few things to consider and/or look at Do you have the proper pad size? It should be the same size as the pad on the BGA. Is the board warping during your operati
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 10 18:05:11 EDT 2002 | mikestringer
What have your experiences been with static meters for maintaining your ESD program? As part of our ESD program I am after an improved method of identifying risk items, or items not performing to specification. We use wrist and foot straps, ESD flo
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 31 01:40:46 EDT 2002 | kenbliss
Cal and everyone else on this forum I completely agree. Everyone needs to keep in mind, not everything is going over to China. The press says it is, they also told us the stock market was great and then they said the stock market was bad. The medi
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 15 15:44:11 EDT 2002 | davef
For us, no. Pain in the butt, yes. Volume build shops do not have the inherent flexibility that quick turn shops have built into their systems to deal with these problems. I�d speculate that this issue will help LARGE contract shops to rethink the
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 12 09:40:53 EDT 2002 | itempea
Hi Antonio, you had some wonderful input from the previous mailers. They covered much of the technicalities. What I would like to point out is that if the line has 2 chipshooters and they only use one for you, you still pay for the second one since
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 16 10:00:03 EDT 2002 | davef
You have a very bad situation. It�s tough for the gas, flux material, er whatever to escape when the BGA is sitting on top of it and the blind via is blocking it from the other side. Obviously the vias should have been: * Placed on the edge of the
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 21 18:24:24 EDT 2002 | dragonslayr
surely, a big picture perspective is in order to keep from charging off, tilting at windmills and waning Quixotic. Just to tic ya off a bit more (come on now, smile), would those 2 boards in rework have just one defect each or are there multiple def
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 22 22:10:26 EDT 2002 | davef
Ooooow! �Can it be fixed?� Good question. How BAD did you damage it? * Since you are asking this question, I am NOT inspired by the potential that you have the skills to fix the board. Go Jeff Ferry�s site at Circuit Repair Center [If you can�t f
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 11 07:37:11 EDT 2002 | mk
Whoaaaa Genny, Its not that bad!!! The difficulty factor is in assembling your own boards is all releative to how many, and how difficult they are. Most studies show that the vast majority of defects in smd assembly are generated in the application