Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 11 18:10:26 EST 2012 | davef
New Webinar on Laser Depaneling SMTA Webinars On February 9th, Josh Brown of LPKF Laser & Electronics will walk you through the advantages and disadvantages of laser depaneling in comparison to more traditional methods of depaneling such as routing,
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 10 19:01:13 EST 2012 | carvincorp
I was wondering if anyone else out there using the Vectorguard system by DEK has had problems with leaking air bladders. We started using a 29 x 29 frame about a year ago, and already, we've needed to send the frame back 3 times for repair due to int
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 15 10:37:19 EST 2012 | caerleon
The only way you will be able to measure it is to count the reel before you put it on the machine, count them when they come off and deduct the amount expected to be placed. you will then have the result of attrition on the machine. or.. Pick the p
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 17 11:48:25 EST 2012 | davef
Here's a link to an earlier thread on SMTnet that may add something to the conversation http://www.smtnet.com/Forums/Index.cfm?CFApp=1&Message_ID=20871 Allowing fabricators to X-Out boards is a bad idea. * X-Outs are randomly placed * Machines can
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 21 16:38:18 EST 2012 | comatose
We finally can't avoid adding wave solder to our process anymore. For lead-free, medium sized wave I'm leaning towards mid 2000s senju units as the best fit. I've never run their equipment. Opinions? As a point of reference for our general capabilit
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 21 11:42:54 EDT 2012 | davef
Downhole solder suggestions, in order of preference are: * Kester Sn96.3Ag3.7. Most vendors do not stock straight tin-silver alloys, whose wallet is that fat? * SAC305 can usually be used in place of one of the copper-free tin-silver alloys in downho
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 21 13:16:11 EDT 2012 | grahamcooper22
What solder alloy are you using at the moment which is coming to the end of its limits ? Normally in general for safe operation of an alloy we don't like to recommend any operation temp that is higher then two thirds of the solders melt point, but th
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 29 07:37:45 EDT 2012 | davef
The current discussion about solder fountains has to do with copper dissolution. Broadly, copper dissolution is the weakening of copper traces where a trace and a barrel plating intersect due a loss of the copper into the solder. Longer contact time
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 27 04:39:27 EDT 2012 | andrzej
Have you got some experience with using laser (CO2 or fiber one) to label with barcode your PCBs ? So far I thought it is easy process but now we do tests with many PCBs covered with diffrent soldermasks and fiber laser as well as CO2 has same probl
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 28 09:59:47 EDT 2012 | bradlanger
Sounds like you have tried everything I can think of as far as hardware is concerned. One thing that sounds suspicious to me if the error "Failed to create empty document". I have only seen that error when my MMI software got corrupted in the process
