Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 20 18:15:02 EDT 2002 | davef
Haaaaa!!!! Soldering to plastic!!!! An apt analogy!!! I like to compare it to soldering to dirt. Some thing. In fact, you are soldering on nickel, when soldering on many things. It�s just that the gold, er Pd, flash enables the wetting mechanism
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 22 12:47:01 EDT 2002 | kenbliss
Hi Yngwie I am not sure where you are trying to go with your questions, but it appears you are looking for a way to monitor how productive your production lines are running. With the assumption that these are SMT lines your are running you should f
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 27 15:13:35 EST 2003 | stockley
Oh dear, I tried not to respond but i couldn't help myself. Stop me if I go off into the woods. My guess, Chris, based on your fleeting reference to GF files, is that your SMT machines are Siemens Siplace. If this is so then package orientation def
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 03 11:57:38 EST 2003 | davef
R4: We see the ball left on the PCB with a flat top and the BGA pad appears to be virgin. D4: Not good. The flat top indicates that the ball melted at one time or another. This pad and ball have seen at least two solder cycles with solder and flux. S
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 23 04:00:43 EDT 2003 | Paul Cooper
Hi there There are a number of things worth considering when viewing bga's. Firstly, like any other solder joint that you have been inspecting for years, suface finish is critical. Secondly, and again like other joints shape is important. Now it may
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 28 10:56:31 EST 2004 | russ
the reason you don't want to use PPM is exactly the reason you need to. You cannot compare a square 1" block to a multi faceted custom machine part. In SMT assembly you will usually find that all 0603 and larger discreetes,25mil pitch, etc. are pro
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 30 08:28:39 EDT 2004 | davef
Roger Saunders, President Saunders Technology, Inc wrote a fairly unbiased paper that compared different thermocouple attach methods. You can probably find it on their site. In it, about gluing thermocouples, he says: There are two general classes
Electronics Forum | Wed May 12 16:31:25 EDT 2004 | Mark @ SolderStar
In answer to your questions. (1) pls can any body throw some light on the reflow profiling? Reflow profiling is the process of confirming that you PCB's that pass through your reflow oven are produced within specifications provided by solder paste
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 18 00:41:15 EDT 2004 | Grant
Hi, We have the Soltec Delta C. It works well, and is very stable. I think the software is a bit simplistic, but it keeps the wave stable, so that's the main thing. It's the timer on the software that I find annoying. It has a warm up time, and yo
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 20 17:14:39 EST 2005 | jbrower
Today, I have just finished evaluating Kester's EM907 (SAC305)lead free solder paste and found that for our applications it performs as expected. End result that I am encouraged with the results that we got. The equipment that I used: An SMT2020 to
