Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 10 15:05:30 EDT 2003 | stepheno
Don't forget about moisture sensitive devices already on the board if you are reflowing the entire board again. No doubt the other BGA's have been absorbing moisture since the boards were first reflowed. You may have to bake the boards before reflo
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 11 03:35:44 EDT 2003 | emeto
Hi there is one thing. I had the same problem before and after examine it I found the problem is in the pads. The pads on the board were bigger then usual and the distance between them also was a little bit longer.Theese two are the best precondition
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 12 18:05:06 EDT 2003 | ronald mupfeki
Our company wants to establish a department that deals only in rework and repair of populated through hole & smt pcbs from outside companies .However given the wide variety of suppliers & with all equipment looking like it has been branded can anyone
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 16 10:55:08 EDT 2003 | stepheno
You might want to check your input power. It is never "clean" but you might have too many spikes and transients. I've seen line monitors used and it was an eye opener how much noise there was on the input power. If you had a CPU go, you might want
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 14 18:35:14 EDT 2003 | Dave
But I think that these free products are basically viewers- I want an application that outputs a file of positions and rotations, to make a placement file. I think GC PowerPlace does it, but that looks expensive! Am I just misunderstanding what thes
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 14 20:56:01 EDT 2003 | davef
No, you're correct. Meeting most of your criteria, Excel seems to be the best choice. As an alternative to GC-Place, consider also CircuitCAM [ http://www.aiscorp.com/products_npi_circuitcam.htm ] We have no relationship nor receive benefit from
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 15 09:35:49 EDT 2003 | daanterstegge
Perhaps the inexpensive program called SMT-Maestro can be of help for some of your data manipulation ? Like Excel it doesn't take gerber directly, but it can cope with any delimited ascii file. A trial is available at http://www.smtinfo.net/smtmae
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 15 16:31:11 EDT 2003 | GerberGrab
If you just need gerber to placement list processing, then you might be interested in GerberGrab. It's not as sophisticated as the more expensive packages that include this capability, but it's getting better all the time and it's much more affordabl
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 17 04:05:20 EDT 2003 | emeto
Hi Dave! You said nothing about the PCB program you use. I sue Protel99SE and there is an option "Create P&P file". It's txt with all info you need. Ithink there are versions for free in http://www. May be you should try with changing your software w
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 17 14:57:11 EDT 2003 | ssnow
I have been using Camtastic for 3+ years and have ejoyed using this low end software. Originally all I wanted was to digitize paste layers and learned it was much more than I needed at the time. approx $500. auto aperature detection is so much better
