Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 22 16:04:26 EST 2006 | mika
Hi, This Not so easy as one wuold think. Has the thermal pad of yours vias? How many? What's the via's dia? What is the pcb thickness? If the the pcb has a "ground layer" connected (vias) to the pcb thermal pad, it could sometimes be a little bit tri
Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 17 05:42:58 EDT 2007 | mika
Hi Shrek, I quote: " Well, whether your parents like it or not, I am an ogre! And guess what, princess Mika? That's not about to change. My background is that I�m a big, good looking guy that is used to gettin� my way with my wit and muscle." I don
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 27 16:51:14 EDT 2007 | gmoritz
I'm updating this thread and replying to the first post in the thread due to the annoying tendency for later posts to get indented to the point that you can only put one or two words per line. Our Rad 5, hit the skids again for the last couple of w
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 17 12:33:23 EDT 2007 | mika
If you run into any trouble with this, I will be more than happy to help you out. We have a spec. that includes everything that UIC says the transformer has to do. Now we contacted a local transformer manufactory; and guess what: we bought 8 of them
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 06 17:37:05 EDT 2007 | hakerem
Hi Joris - There is an excellent wave solder guide called "Take No Prisoners" that includes instructions for attacking and eliminating solder balls and preventing their recurrence: 1. Increase Dwell Time Solder balls are normally caused by too much f
Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 22 01:30:31 EDT 2007 | mika
I am sorry my friend, but I can't recall that specific error number. But it would help if you explain a little bit more about your problem. Remember that an error code Do Not necessary points to a direct root-cause of a problem. First of all we nee
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 01 18:08:03 EST 2007 | jmelson
Hello, I just ran into a crazy problem with my CSM84. I did a batch of one side of a board, then loaded the program to do the top side, and it stops with the head over the 3rd component's feeder, and reports error 117:overflow. The maintenance manua
Electronics Forum | Sun May 18 19:04:54 EDT 2008 | jmelson
OK, here's a sample component file : 1 0.1uF 0.00 1 24 1.00K 0.00 1 22 10.0K 0.00 1 3 1000pF 0.00 1 3 .001uF 0.00 1 25 1.0uF 0.00 1 2 100pF 0.00 1 30 10M 0.00
Electronics Forum | Tue May 13 08:47:38 EDT 2008 | locostpp
Yes, this is a good point and really only time will tell just how reliable such a machine becomes. What I'm aiming for is to simplify and reduce the number of sub-assemblies. For example we are building the camera/vision processor and lighting into
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 10 13:34:43 EDT 2008 | rwyman
We have a Vitronics mySelective machine (model 6749, or "the Fat Bastard" as we affectionately call it). It's configurable with various combinations of "select wave" and "multi wave" pots. Ours has one of each. The "select wave" is for the most pa