Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 24 22:29:04 EDT 2002 | davef
First, I don't have a clear fix on the problem. Please drill-down to more detail. We appreciate that you probably don't know the parlance. Just describe what you have and then what you'd like to have. Second, most 0402 LED are fabricated just lik
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 26 23:59:48 EST 2003 | Mike Konrad
Grant, No-Clean paste + IPA = White Residue! #1: Stop using IPA #2: Switch to either a solvent-based de-fluxing chemical or an aqueous-based de-fluxing chemical. If you are using an ultrasonic cleaner for your boards as stated, do not use sapon
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 10 05:25:43 EDT 2003 | dst
Hi, My company is currently experiencing a high feild failure rate on a 100nF chip ceramic that we use in various applications across our product range. One of them being de-coupling which means we use millions of this device every month. The failu
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 20 12:55:43 EST 2004 | russ
Ah, the old contour wave. I don't really know how to adjust those to get correct backflow to reduce your solder volume. I need to ask why you are worried about this. Do you have a QC requirement in excess of IPC class3 wich allows for this joint t
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 30 08:28:39 EDT 2004 | davef
Roger Saunders, President Saunders Technology, Inc wrote a fairly unbiased paper that compared different thermocouple attach methods. You can probably find it on their site. In it, about gluing thermocouples, he says: There are two general classes
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 15 18:07:04 EDT 2004 | dwanzek
This has been a tough one to date. Any ideas will help. Problem definition � random QFP144 part not soldering all leads. Percentage fallout is about 1-5% of boards. Usually leads, one or more, on trailing side to the direction of travel does not wet
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 22 12:02:11 EST 2005 | siverts
The first thing to do, as always with any trouble shooting, is to try to isolate your problem area, then it is much easier to pinpoint and find a solution for the problem. Some simple checks you can do, besides the good suggestions you got from some
Electronics Forum | Mon May 02 18:54:28 EDT 2005 | MikeaJ
The answer you are looking for is part of your initial setup of the board and stencil. This information is to be found in the PCB setup menu/icon. The reason why the stencil loading pins are impacting the frame is because the default setting of the s
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 03 14:43:19 EST 2005 | chunks
Hmmmm.... We never had to change any parameters when switching over to Gels. And no, we don't let the operators have kitty-wampus on our programs either. The Gels did get rid of broken parts. We have Run Orders of about 50 pieces. We change over
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 01 10:53:56 EST 2006 | edruppert
AMS, Are you aware that you will have to purchase several types of insertion equipment for different part types? You will need an axial inserter, radaial and DIP inserter to cover the gamut of thru-hole insertion. Even then you may not cover oddba