Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 29 03:37:53 EDT 2005 | lupo
Hi, I think that the time depends on the type of stainless steel, temperature and solder alloy. For example, one of our machines is delivered with 316 stainless pot and alloy SnNi. It worked six months (120days*16hours = 1920hours) and aft
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 01 04:15:58 EDT 2005 | pci
Hello I am looking for a best solution to make a prototype of Single sided and double sided board. Using Orcad. The line / track width are 8/8 mil. the hole sizes are 0.6 0.8 , 1.2 and 2.6 mm. The size will be approx. 175 x 130mm. Could you please
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 15 09:41:57 EDT 2005 | Ron Herbert
Ken, I am with Technical Devices and I'm sorry you feel that way. Is there a reason for you comment? We try to do our best to make our customers proud they decided to purchase our machines. If a customer has a problem, and he or she notifies us of
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 03 13:22:33 EST 2005 | erokc
Here here, I started this thread. If someone offers a solution I'll consider it. If it happens to involve trade so what. It was offered to my specific request, not just blatantly posted. It may be my best solution to have someone else assemble my
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 24 10:48:52 EST 2006 | geb
Hi, We are starting to have supplied to us by customers different colour PCBs, which affects the ability of our MPM AP-27 stencil printer to see the fiducials. Has anyone tried and found out what the best and worst colours/ materials are for the fid
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 27 11:50:21 EDT 2006 | samir
90% of the battle with thermal profiling is your thermocouple attachment. That is Process Engineering 101. It's just like painting your house. The masking and prep work will make or break the end result. KIC did a DoE on which thermocouple attach
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 05 11:05:39 EDT 2006 | PWH
Our experience has been similar to yours. Not the best placements rates for 0603 caps. I can't tell you an exact reject rate on our machines. We program them as leaded components which seems to help a lot. Also, not using gang picks is best. You
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 30 06:56:17 EDT 2007 | realchunks
Hi Chris, Mini stencils are a pain to line up and then holding it still while trying to print is almost impossible. We used to use tacky flux but found the Stencil Quik gizzmo from Best works the best. Give it a try. http://www.solder.net/stencil
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 26 16:43:16 EDT 2007 | Upper Management
Seminars and meetings are the best way to get a clear understanding of a machine's capabilities. I have found that the manufacturing engineers will oftentimes skew the results of machine evaluations with facts and data. In practice, I've found it
Electronics Forum | Wed May 16 15:22:25 EDT 2007 | mainenetservices
Below is a call-in question: Has there been a Benchmark study done for Best-In-Class Cost Per Placement of components on PCBA? Also, is there an industry standard to calculate cost per placement of components on PCBA? Any help would be greatly app
