Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 21 08:34:09 EDT 2006 | Chunks
Larry, You always seem to twist things back to your wave solder process, ya nut! Anyway, why over simplify things when you are trouble shooting a process? The K.I.S.S. process was invented by your generation so I thought you of all people would l
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 21 04:20:49 EDT 2006 | Rob
Hi Mika, I used to work for the largest chip cap manufacturer in the world, and by far the largest problem we would see was cracking due to incorrect z height adjustment on Chipshooters. It can also cause solderballs and bad joints by displacing th
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 28 18:16:17 EDT 2006 | fastek
Sure Base....go ahead and trust your company's livelihood to make money on a vendor that is either going out of business or is on the block to be sold. These are not cars or luxury items of convenience we are talking about here. In many if not all c
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 28 12:44:23 EDT 2006 | actech
WE have been running a leaded product for a few years and while the product is exempt from PB free regulations the components have been comming in lead free reciently and this caused little or no change in the process and or product, However! the Boa
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 14 19:19:38 EDT 2006 | SWAG
I would try to panelize as big as you can for sure as you'll spend more time handling single boards than running anything. Additionally, this size is very close to smallest capabilities on GSM depending on your configuration. Fids on all boards in
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 18 12:36:59 EDT 2006 | slthomas
A customer specs .1% thin film 0805s on one product. The parts that came in the kit were marked 1002, and I suspect they were just 1%ers that were sorted for the tighter tolerance. We were a few short, ordered the balance and got parts marked 103 w
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 27 23:50:26 EST 2007 | KEN
Hi James. I do not work in sales. I am a ME in CM....for over 18 years. If you do not have resources to evaluate wave machines should we assume you have limited support resources for your current machines? IF this is the case buying an entry level
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 16 17:46:49 EDT 2006 | Dan
Recently I was given a bad Bios Link from Toshiba which fried my Bios and now my laptop boots to a black screen. I recently unsoldered and removed the existing Bios chip and have ordered anotherfor replacement. Unfortunately while removing, i damag
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 08 14:35:28 EST 2006 | glynnhamer
We currently are building a pcb that has gold fingers, about 36 in a concave V overall shape from .275 on the outside edge fingers tapering down to .197 in the middle of the 2 inch span that plugs into a shelf connector. These fingers are on both sid
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 16 13:18:47 EST 2006 | Ola
Why not? If You think it has a bussiness case so go for it. We are currently using a firm that has 24h delivery time if neccesary (we need to order before 9'clock in the morning)and we once in a while use this for some prototypes. Their regular shipm