Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 16 10:59:08 EDT 2007 | mika
Did You recieve any s/w with it? If something has happend to the hard drive or something could happens in the future then you need to reinstall... S/W ver. is written on the the s/w package. It should contain s/w for: The OS (Operating system), Visi
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 28 04:49:09 EDT 2007 | gregoryyork
Just a shame that the HASL fluids that are used contain Hydrobromic or hydrochloric acids or a mixture of the two and are full of strong wetting agents that are NON IONIC so the IC test results mean very little as they are checking for Ionics only. P
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 08 06:26:03 EST 2008 | jdumont
Hey that was me way back! Anyways, use Dow 3140 (self leveling) or Dow 3145 (peanut butter consistency) and call it a day. No out gassing/acidic properties. 3140 also contains a UV tracer for black light inspection. Any tall caps should be epoxied if
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 14 10:59:37 EST 2008 | stevezeva
Maybe what you could do is have the stencil contain a tightly spaced mesh or grid of openings over the ground plane areas that you need to be solder covered. Also, to help the solder flow out better, you might want to decrease the percentage of metal
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 03 17:42:35 EST 2008 | tonyamenson
I stripped the entire board because I had to have the boards troubleshot. Had a high failure rate from the field. The board coating was applied about 5 months ago. I was told by my people anything past 3 days and you will need this type of stripper
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 09 08:32:11 EDT 2008 | davef
In our shop, a very large portion of the mistakes in the shop have their genesis with someone one other than the person making the mistake. Often, it is a chain of events that lead to the mistake. How do your picture posting systems drill down to de
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 24 15:00:19 EDT 2008 | scooter
I use Publisher to create work instruction with pictures and text boxes containing the part numbers and descriptions of the parts for that assembly . Then use arrows to show their location on the picture If the assembly is complex you might need to
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 16 08:15:27 EDT 2008 | davef
We are unfamiliar with yellow penetrant. Red is common, as you say. There are couple of green penetrants out there. Some red penetrants contain yeasts [eg, Calcofluor Yellow, Azosol Brilliant Yellow 6GF, etc] that fluorese yellow, but that's not what
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 15 17:38:57 EDT 2008 | bman
We've found that storage of other LEDs from this manufacturer can be very important. On page eight of the datesheet you attached, it says: "It is recommended that LEDs out of their original packaging are IR-reflowed within one week. For extended sto
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 10 13:53:27 EDT 2008 | ccouture
Has anybody ever use this method to reclaim the solder from dross. I tested this $10 gadget, it's used to press potato to make mash potato. The result is comparable to a $20k machine that basically does the same thing, i.e.: compress dross to squeeze