Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 28 17:22:23 EST 2006 | dave
All, I am currently trying to run a quantity of boards thru my wave machine but I am having serious issues with hole-fill or lack of aswell as others. The boards are HASL finish and due to materials issue they have been waiting for Wave Solder Proce
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 21 19:34:32 EST 2006 | Tom Smykowski
Omar: I dealt with this so called "hot bar" process also, and you're right; it's neither reliable nor repeatable. The goal was to attach a flex LCD display to another flex circuit. The flex LCD was constructed of resin and conductive silver particl
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 29 11:42:20 EST 2006 | Frank
Since you are a HM/LV facility take a look at the feeder design. I noticed that the MyData feeders (that I have seen) peel back a lot of pockets before the pick, so when you change part numbers on the feeder there is a larger waste of components. O
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 04 11:43:06 EDT 2006 | Mike Konrad
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Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 19 06:47:58 EDT 2006 | QTEK Manufacturing Ltd. www.qtek.com
QTEK Manufacturing Ltd. launched a revolutionary new product last November at the Productronica Exhibition in Germany, which was the QTEK Splice Clip and Tape, which eliminates the awkward handling problems commonly associated witht the splicing proc
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 19 20:33:14 EDT 2006 | davef
I just flew in from (insert city) and boy are my arms tired. pr: Likely, you're correct. The "pound-inch" units should have been the give-away, for us. Good catch. If this is the case, the frame fabricator would be the best source for tensioning
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 26 10:56:13 EDT 2006 | JEM
Mydata sales for TPSys 2.4 says and i quote" Reduce your setup and changeover times with new features like the ability to use auto teach for vision illumination, barcode loading of trays, factory wide sharing of vision package data.TPSys 2.4 contains
Electronics Forum | Wed May 03 12:26:30 EDT 2006 | patrickbruneel
This is indeed yet another proof that under impulse of the RoHS directives all norms are flushed down the drain. Bean counters are slowly but surely taking over our industry because they no longer face resistance by form of standards. Even the basic
Electronics Forum | Wed May 10 00:27:46 EDT 2006 | Chris
Russ, By a longer profile you mean a more even slope across the entire profile. Unfortunately I only have a 5 zone oven that is fairly short. How many heated zones are you using? Did you shrink the 0402 pad design and leave less pad exposed out a
Electronics Forum | Thu May 18 14:50:08 EDT 2006 | grantp
Hi, The bath is titanium coated, and the machine is only 2 years old, and was designed for lead free, so we know we don't need to change anything. The reason the supplier gave for suggesting the bath change is "other companies are doing it" and it'