Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 21 19:07:36 EST 2006 | greg york
Serious question here, why do all the Lead Free Chinese Wave Soldering machines I have seen come in set at 5 Degrees angle - It doesn't work and bridges all over the place until th eangle is changeds. Are you guys finding this? Thanks Greg York
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 05 09:09:38 EST 2006 | sigmasmt
These feeders come from an old OEM plant. They had a in house system they put together so the machine will not run until you had the correct feeder in place. Once the feeder was scanned and put into the feeder slot, the magnet would help recognize t
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 30 10:01:52 EST 2006 | realchunks
It depends. If it's a current desing that can't be changed, we go outside the box on any issue to see if we can build it. Then it all comes down to time versus dollars. If it's a new product we offer suggestions to the customer and try to bang out
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 04 20:57:09 EST 2006 | callckq
Hello, I did EDX on BGA just to find out copper wt% at the package- ball interface. Is wt% ranging from 20 to 32 considered as normal?? As far as I know lead free BGA and solder paste just have little copper..Where is this excess copper come from
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 06 21:59:37 EST 2006 | SMTrework
Hello, we rework BGA packages that come back from the field. I've seen on occasion a black and or red "epoxy" substance from the manufacturer on the corner of some board's BGA chips that I imagine are applied to increase corner bond of the chip to th
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 16 18:04:40 EST 2007 | FSW
Hi! I am in SMT manufacturing & was wondring if anyone can recommend some good reference books. Dave F, I had come across your recommended list of books on the SMT in Focus website. However this website has now been closed & was wondering if there i
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 24 09:52:50 EST 2007 | electronhose
Sounds like you need a support pallet to accommodate the narrow side clearance. Several pallet houses made pallets that work in screen printing that have flush board edge clamps that hold the board in the pallet yet allow the stencil to come all the
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 24 09:57:35 EST 2007 | Joe
a customer of mine purchased one of these units. didn't come with manuals, called austin american they want 5k to register so they can buy manuals. does anyone have a copy that my customer could either pay them to scan or copy. Much thanks!
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 16 14:14:07 EST 2007 | wrongway
we use A EKRA X5 it can use A pad our the fiducial I generaly use A pab becuse most of our stencil don't come with the fiducials on them and our boards our HASAL and the fids our domed most of the time the smt pads work better for me
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 08 08:45:51 EST 2007 | Rob
Thats the drag - feeders don't come for free. Also depends on your budget - if you buy a good machine from the off then you can always add extra feeders over time & as your budget allows, however if you start with a ok machine and lots of feeders y
