Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 10 10:48:49 EDT 2004 | Jon W.
Dr. Lou, Your first question is influenced by many variables. New equipment will have the first year free parts, labor and service. You may discuss a long term at time of purchase. Older equipment may (depending on maintenance) have a higher chance
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 24 14:34:13 EDT 2004 | tjensen
There are many factors that can lead to solder balls. Since you have just recently seen this start to occur, it is obvious something has changed in the product or your process. Since we don't have a lot of details about your process, I would sugges
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 18 09:20:22 EDT 2004 | QE
Davef, Sorry for the late response. I was trying to gather more info. The group with low ionic contamination levels came from one of our other facilities. We want to outsource more of our product due to increasing demand. Both groups use the same
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 05 03:53:36 EDT 2004 | johnwnz
Hey, this is something that I've looked at and published a paper on back in 2003 at Apex, actually pert of one, the other part was lookign at how effective X-ray systems (lamanography systems) were at detecting & measuring BGA void size accuratly (co
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 20 12:49:38 EDT 2004 | mmjm_1099
We are having a problem with our Heller 1800W oven with certian parts skewing. It seems that some inductors and taller Can caps are shifting around in the oven. It seems it will solder fine and than all of a sudden just be off to one side or the othe
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 30 05:21:04 EDT 2004 | vinitverma
I would also like to add some more features of Assembleon XII platform. You had mentined that you already have GSM machine whose feeders could be used if you buy a new GSM machine. Assembleon XII machines such as Opal XII, can use GSM feeders as we
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 18 00:53:16 EDT 2004 | Grant
Hi, I think you cannot go wrong with Convection. If you want to experiment with VP, just get some of the fluid and put it into a pasta cooker on a standard domestic hot plate. Have a basin full of cold water so after reflow you can lift the cooker a
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 27 11:38:44 EDT 2004 | marc
This has always been a big debate on what is better. Few things to consider before getting into number of zones. What is the throughput and cooling requirements? Throughput is a direct relation to length of heating zone. Longer heating length
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 01 19:50:29 EST 2004 | davef
Q1: Will the ion chromatography be able to identify and quantify the contaminant? A1: Yes, it will identify and quantify the amount of contaminant. Obviously this is very useful in troubleshooting the source of the contaminant. [The only problem fo
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 17 09:51:25 EST 2004 | AS
I'm looking for advise on setting up a prototype station for smt (we are currently outsourcing smt production, but have a need for rapid in house prototyping). The station must be able to handle only single sided boards with components no smaller th
