Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 17 11:38:53 EST 2000 | Steve Thomas
We appear to have solved a major reflow process problem (poor quality joints on a 20 mil QFP100...excessive solder left on the lead leg, not much left for a joint) with a design change to the board. We gave ourselves considerably more room for a hee
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 17 03:53:24 EST 2000 | Scott Cook
It is with some regret that I find that feel that I can no longer contribute to this forum with the same zeal I once had. The forum old timers will remember when I was a leading respondent to technical questions. Many issues drive me to this decisio
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 17 09:49:02 EST 2000 | JAX
Although I hate to see anyone leave I cannot help but feel that the forum will benifit from it. Once you no longer look at the forum as simply a medium to carry out your technical discussions and start thinking of it as a way to benifit yourself, the
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 18 10:03:55 EST 2000 | Cunli
Scott, Sorry to see you leave SMTnet. I want to thank you again for being the most frequent contributor in the early days of the Forum, and for your continued partipation and help as editor of the SMT Express. Since archived messages only go back
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 19 05:34:45 EST 2000 | Dane Stokes
Also Jan, Don't you have to send your components through a filter program when transfering from a 4796 to a 4791 or vice versa. I know you have to do this when transfering a 4790 program to a 4791 because the speed data does not transfer correctly. I
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 23 11:12:47 EST 2000 | TMV
This note is in response to your question about not being able to recognize a component that is running on a 4796 but has problems on a 4791. The 4791 and 4796 used two different recognition systems and the lighting calibration will be not be the s
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 16 15:29:15 EST 2000 | John S.
My company manufactures electronic modules for the automotive industry. We have a current product that the customer would like a "heavy duty" version of. The module will have to handle roughly twice as much power as the original. A couple of compo
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 16 05:00:50 EST 2000 | Dean
What is the package type? TO92, TO5...etc. This temp. sensing device clips (mechanically) to the sink. And this requires a special tool? How about thermo bond heat sink compound? "output" by loc tite is the only flavor I can think of...There a
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 15 11:45:39 EST 2001 | bdoyle
Hi guys, thanks for the feedback! Wolfgang - we're looking into making this forum similar to the old one (displaying messages instead of just threads on the forum homepage). In the meantime have you checked out the feature "While You Were Out" whic
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 16 09:23:26 EST 2001 | P.Gerits
Hello, Standard way to calculate stencil design can be done as follows: A normal ratio of aperture width/stencil thickness = 1.5 for pitches below 650u A normal ratio of stencil aperture width against pad width = 0.8-0.9 (or stencil aperture 10%-20
