Electronics Forum | Wed May 17 17:35:41 EDT 2000 | JAX
Janet, If you do not have any SMT experianced personel hire a consultant. You can find them everywhere on this site even if they say they don't participate or even agree with SMTNET. Whoever you choose can give you the direction and understanding ne
Electronics Forum | Wed May 17 14:01:46 EDT 2000 | Earl Moon
Steve, Great to see from you again, as so very many times before? New folks always welcome on the forum. You and Dave are management's big hope for success to attract more advertising. Can't wait to see what you have to ask Mr. Harper, if that happe
Electronics Forum | Fri May 05 20:07:26 EDT 2000 | TNT
Charles, The percentage of misplaced components can increase with the number of components, because as you increase the number of placements the travel of the PCB,for a fixed turret machine, increases in table speed and distance. The slower the trav
Electronics Forum | Wed May 03 09:50:50 EDT 2000 | C.K.
Which wave solder flux are you using and what types of preheaters did you have on both your old econopak and your new vectra? From my past experience, an alcohol-based flux does NOT work well with Convection style preheaters....the flux burned off t
Electronics Forum | Mon May 01 11:51:24 EDT 2000 | Erhard Hofmann
A while ago I read an article about a machine that can pick up a bulk case and then place components out of it without having to travel to a feeder pick up position in between. I forgot where I read this and who the manufacturer was. Can anyone help
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 21 20:00:29 EDT 2000 | Larry Johnson
I have been programming FUJI equipment for about 7 years now, and I am yet to fully understand this. PLCC's on an IP3. Front light, back light? Any CCD Level offsets? I just can't seem to get a good PD that will pass vision consistently. Can anyon
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 24 11:59:06 EDT 2000 | Glenn Robertson
Rich - I agree with Dave, except if you get smacked for doing the right things, find someone bigger to smack back. MS is a serious problem that affects many areas of a company. You might want to consider what I did, which is put together a pre
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 19 18:02:34 EDT 2000 | Mike Flori
If you can divide your boards into different categories it allows you to determine a different starting profile for each category, based on size, # of layers, etc. When you get a new board to profile you'll have an idea what settings will get you clo
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 14 19:09:38 EDT 2000 | Ashok Dhawan
One of our customer insist on repair of solder mask even if it is pin holes or less than 0.010 sq in. area. Based on our knowledge bank, we though of thre options, there could be many more. 1. coat the exposed area with original solder resist (from
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 11 08:57:35 EDT 2000 | Alfred
Can you get me a recommendation regarding a Micro BGA soldering. It is apparent there is a problem and I want to insure success by following recommended practices. Is there a particular solder mask configuration recommended, as far as stencil thick
