Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 21 10:00:13 EDT 2007 | slthomas
"Unfortunately breakaways aren't an option - they are large boards and we already have problems hand placing components and probing them." Not sure what this means in this context....if you frame the perimeter with a 1/2" border on a V-score, how do
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 10 09:28:54 EST 2006 | stepheniii
Water is known as the universal solvent for a reason. Not because it's a powerfull solvent but because it has hydrogen bonding and is bi-polar. I think it's the polar nature of H20 that makes it disolve ions. D.I. water will pick up ions where it c
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 20 05:50:29 EDT 2002 | edahi
thanks yeah we are very much looking at the reflow because the package is ceramic tough "scratch" the tape idea because the gold pad is a marking area and the surface might be contaminated and it might cause illegible marking. the slow ramp up i'll
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 03 08:37:21 EDT 2008 | davef
Our bean-counters would put inspection in overhead, because inspection adds no value to the product. As a contactor, your bean-counter may consider inspection to be a value added process, because it increases your confidence that you are shipping goo
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 21 13:58:21 EDT 2009 | ghepo
Dear Mike, because that site and handbooks are property of many hands and because I work in a multinational company as manager of a PCB quality dept. Therefore, be mistaken for a "guru" in this major website, is not my purpose. Anyway, thanks for y
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 22 08:55:31 EDT 2009 | stepheniii
Second, ESD-stuff > IS very confusing. Largely because people don't > know what they're talking about. I think a lot of that is because of followers following followers.
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 30 04:52:02 EDT 2015 | anirudh_thabjul
Thankyou once again dude. I finally decided to use immersion Silver because my boss is not convinced with ENIG Cost because my company is just a startup company. thanks once again for your suggustion. regards Anirudh
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 27 18:15:39 EST 2020 | slthomas
I have to ask this because "Material is applied over bare aluminum" doesn't make sense to me. Is that some kind of electrically insulative black anodization on the board surface? Because if it's just bare aluminum, how is the entire circuit not sho
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 30 11:29:13 EST 2008 | davef
People use green soldermask because people use green soldermask. In the 1950s, the US military selected green, because they liked green better than other colors. So, here we are. We believe the performance of red and blue is comparable with green. T
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 29 13:34:28 EDT 2013 | dontfeedphils
Usually the reason it will fail a part like that when you are using mechanical centering is because the part is usually picked so off center because of the body shape. So when the centering jaws close to push the part to center they give up and fail
