Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 20 14:02:26 EDT 2007 | JJ
RA, First, define "medium scale budget". Aside from that, I have used many systems, listed in my order of preference: 1. SRT1100 - superior board support - very reliable 2. ERSA IR550A - unique flexability due to infrared heaters 3. Metcal APR5000 -
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 28 09:07:51 EDT 2007 | mika
Laser cut 0.13mm stencil thicknes works great for us. BTW, are we talking RoHS solder paste? We do reduce the stencil apertures to 88 % of the pads when we go for the RoHS solder paste. Otherwise we go fo 96% reduction in general with some excemption
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 19 09:06:00 EDT 2016 | davef
We used to use those, back in the bad old times. basically, it's a router with a blade on it that is used to trim the leads of PTH components that are mounted on boards. Nasty process. Difficult to control. Messy, firing cut leads all over the plac
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 16 20:34:17 EST 2007 | davef
DAVE�S BOOKSHELF ASSEMBLER�S ESSENTIALS Title: Soldering in ElectronicsAuthor: RJ Klein WassinkPublisher: Electrochemical PublicationsISBN: 090115024XPublication date: December 1989 I know, I know. The book was written in 1989!!!! I use this b
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 12 17:17:47 EDT 1999 | Brian Wycoff
| | | Does anyone use reflow profilers? Are they a good investement or is trial and error sufficient? | | | | | | Does anyone have any suggestions on profiles to try? Thanks. | | | | | Danielm | | I would hazard a guess that most if not all of us
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 24 17:42:34 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Rich: Awww, don�t worry that you have to ship product. This moisture sensitive part thing is more important. ;-) And don�t worry that everyone is giving you guff and no one is supporting you. Yours is a thankless job. ;-) You got it right!!!
Electronics Forum | Thu May 10 10:33:46 EDT 2001 | Eyal Duzy
Genny, I would like to correct part of the things that you were told. As far as I know, X-Ray tools are not positioned as tools to find solder volume simply because it is not a strong point for them. An X-Ray image is either a projection (2D transm
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 28 04:27:04 EDT 1999 | Wolfgang Busko
| | | | | | | | Hiya, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Could anyone please suggest recommended manufacturers of | | | | | | | | IR rework stations for the removal of various SMT comps. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cheers | | | | | | | | | | | |
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 28 12:48:02 EDT 1999 | Justin Medernach
| | | We use Immersion Gold (AuNi) for our 20 mil pitch and BGA boards. | | | Lately, we have been having solderability problems with boards with this surface from some of our suppliers. | | | | | | We are considering trying boards with White Tin so
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 19 00:31:55 EST 1998 | Larry
The type of training I am looking for is things like micro BGA, flipchip, COB, new processes and techniques, ect. I already work with things like fine pitch QFP's, high mix double reflowed boards every day. I live in Vancouver, but I can drive to Sea
