Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 18:07:25 EST 2006 | Chris
Flash gold is just thin gold plating over electroless nickel or electrolytic nickel. Flash gold is electrolytic gold where the panel is connected to a plating rectifier and current causes the plating process to occur. Gold thickness is controlled b
Electronics Forum | Wed May 03 11:33:11 EDT 2006 | Cmiller
If you want to be able to put down every type of part, and fast, you better look at buying two machines. You did not say how much speed you need but in-line spindle machines rely on gang picks to be able to come anywhere close to rated speed. I have
Electronics Forum | Fri May 26 21:25:52 EDT 2006 | mika
Yes we do place "big and heavy" SMT DC/DC:s on most of our board's. Please tell us what brand it is or at least what the package look like?!? For instance we place a different numbers of "heavy" DC/DC converters (40x20mm & 45x25mm) that has the pick-
Electronics Forum | Sat May 27 19:39:23 EDT 2006 | grantp
Hi, This must be the worst advice I have ever seen given on a forum. Really if you do what Guru says here, your going to go out of business so fast it's amazing. It personally cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars when I had to retire MYDATA
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 11 23:28:59 EDT 2006 | donb
Hi All, I have a continuing problem here with mis-alignment of parts on one of our Fuji CP-3 machines and I thought one of you esteemed engineering types may be able to give me a clue as to where the problem might lie. I have a Fuji trained enginee
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 21 12:05:41 EDT 2006 | Chunks
Do the math first. 10,000 boards a month means 440 boards a day (roughly, and not including weekends). Do you plan 2 shifts or only one? If one, you need to produce a board about every minute if you work an 8 hour shift. If all 110 parts are on on
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 19 21:06:09 EDT 2006 | mika
Hi all, At our Fuji CP-6 machines we place a lot of 0402:s, 0603:s and 0805:s chip capacitors. Our problem is that the height of the components can sometime be very extreme from different vendors. I am sure you all have experience of this phenomenon
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 22 13:05:32 EDT 2006 | Board House
Hi CP, From a PCB manufacturing side, all of our product is Lead free / RoHs compliant if it has a surface finish other than Hot Air. To be ROHS compliant and Able to with stand Lead Free Assembly, this is where the board house would need to switch
Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 16 12:49:36 EDT 2006 | magszoo
I'm hoping that someone may be able to shed some light on this error we've been getting on our DEK 265LT printer. Several months ago we began getting a "Rising table position error" after the operator would open the hood to load paste or after changi
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 22 16:04:26 EST 2006 | mika
Hi, This Not so easy as one wuold think. Has the thermal pad of yours vias? How many? What's the via's dia? What is the pcb thickness? If the the pcb has a "ground layer" connected (vias) to the pcb thermal pad, it could sometimes be a little bit tri