Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 18 05:57:02 EST 2009 | sigmaprint
Hello Andy, When did you receive the reply "that they hadn't had any for years"? I would be interested to hear who sent you this. I'm a founder director of Sigmaprint and previously a employee of both SMTech and Speedline Technologies. I can curre
Electronics Forum | Sun Feb 14 15:43:32 EST 2010 | jlawson
ERP/ MRP systems can do basic traceability but often fall through as make a lot of asumptions and can not capture realtime info and account for all possible situations. I have seen alot of companies do this and there is always a 'shoe horned' system.
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 05 08:06:39 EST 2010 | rgduval
Rob, Had that issue early on when we hooked up our Heller. For us, the problem turned out to be the serial communications port on the computer. I can't say we had the black screen, but, we had comm errors. I'd check the following: 1. Cable betwe
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 23 14:08:57 EDT 2010 | davef
You have what looks to be blisters/delamination. Use IPC-A-600F as a guideline for acceptance. Usually, we start from the opinion that blisters/delamination as a fabrication issue, even if it appears during solder processing. Often blisters/delam
Electronics Forum | Fri May 07 23:43:10 EDT 2010 | jlawson
I assume you using a fixed mass vapour phase system? Yes rates of rise are impacted by the mass of the PCB, larger the mass to mass of vapour phase the lower the rise generally. So if you load the machine with very little mass PCB rise times can be
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 02 10:30:35 EDT 2010 | kevslatvin
We used to use an APS Gold GF-120 before we went lead-free and the HT version came out. It worked fine for low volume and proto runs though not as much control over the profile as an oven with more zones. We actually had a batch oven from Bomir befor
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 19 03:11:25 EDT 2010 | sarason
I have used the Quick ? from I don't remember what company. But it was a smallish machine ie about the size of a washing machine. The heat/cool cycle was about 30 to 45 minutes. every thing had to be properly sealed or you would loose vapour, this va
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 09 04:21:11 EST 2010 | bising
Hi SMT World, I am facing a technical challenge related to an SOIC 14lds with thermal pad on it's belly that needs to be soldered onto PCB, together with leads. It is a 50 per board, expected 80% solder load on every one. We have some units without
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 21 18:08:40 EST 2010 | cbroegger
Hi Gary. I have the same problem on my Siplace feeders, and have tried different products like you have. This is what I have experienced so far: The "bag sealer" method does not really work well. Problem is that the tape foil type (plastic type) var
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 22 18:16:46 EST 2010 | padawanlinuxero
Hello ! I have a problem with one of high runner, our board comes in a seal package with dessicant cant really tell you how much RH% is inside the bag, but our board does not spend a lot of time in the shelf just some days or a couple of weeks max,