Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 06 14:47:50 EST 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi "some customers/designers want to have via holes to be present in the PCB pad, due to some belief that it helps in heat dissipation. " As I think about this I don't know exactly why they would be concerned. I can imagine in some exotic products
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 14 10:53:41 EST 2003 | Garth
I just can't accept that what I want to do hasn't been thought of before. It's to basic a concept for there not to be an existing product that can at least do something reasonably close. There are too many manufacturing environments and locations f
Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 08 02:43:16 EST 2003 | Frank
We are trying to implement AOI into the mix. One PE wants it Pre-Reflow, to catch and fix the PnP screw ups and the other PE wants it Post-Reflow, because the oven will fix quite a bit of placement offsets and mainly to catch any problems that the R
Electronics Forum | Sun Apr 20 07:20:09 EDT 2003 | tsongshe,Bryan
Thanks. *We use TO252 package,but sometimes the skewed components also happen on TO263 package. *we use TO252 package parts from different suppliers,and when we change the parts from one supplier to the others,few skewed transistors happen again. *
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 28 18:34:17 EDT 2003 | Brian W.
We typically do not try to pick up and hand placve chip resisstors and capacitors. The risk and cost is too high for components that are a penny or less. We take into consideration that on many of our components, someone will have to test them to v
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 06 16:11:25 EDT 2003 | RF Lurker
I understand that there may not be a lot of material on this, as most threads I've seen discourage doing it. It goes against DFM to do it. But I wish to use a large copper area instead of heat sink and thermal epoxy to cool a regulator. But I can'
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 04 01:32:15 EDT 2003 | rheise
I've seen numerous incidences of mirror image cracking under endcaps in high dielectric material ceramic capacitors due to thermal cycling. If the cracking is deep enough to extent through the plates you can get breakdown and shorting. Section the ca
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 02 12:42:58 EDT 2003 | slthomas
Not sure how else to describe this. We've received some boards (1/2" x 3.5" x .0325" board built on panels of 24) with numerous resistors showing separation of the solder from the metallization at the top of the joint. There are 26 0805's on the bo
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 21 10:24:54 EDT 2003 | russ
Whoever established the PPM rates should tell you what it is covering (solder joints/assemblies) PPM is nothing more than a ratio. Determining quality levels is really up to you/company and how you want to measure your quality. This can be anything
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 03 12:15:12 EST 2003 | fmonette
Hi John, There are different types of cabinets available with desiccants or Nitrogen/dry air. The best choice depends on many factors in your production environment. The most important consideration for level 4 components, is to make sure that your