Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 25 16:40:24 EDT 2008 | bschreiber
As I am certain you have discovered, no clean solder paste has removed most inline cleaners from the production floor and the pallets that were cleaned simultaneously with the PCBs are now accumulating flux residue. Permali, the maker of Durostone
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 26 18:10:55 EDT 2008 | jam2425
I'm building a circuit board by hand and can't identify pin 1 on a smt IC. I always determine this by the beveled edge, which this part has, but it also has an arrow on the opposite end, so now I'm unsure which one I should go by...help! Ok, got my
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 28 23:42:40 EDT 2008 | jam2425
It just baffles me as to why a vendor would use, of all things, an arrow as a trademark in the first place. Then stick it on the oppossite side of another marker to boot! I swear, sometimes the way some parts are marked, it's like the manufacterer i
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 28 07:33:40 EDT 2008 | proy
Hi We have an Eclipse and Orion Pick and place which we are familiarizing ourselves with. I have lots of feeders, but many that don't seam to act fast enough for the ORION, but I think are OK on the Eclipse. The manuals have pretty good informatio
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 30 01:30:14 EDT 2008 | benefon
Hi Well as the feed movement is effected by means of a spring return force there really isn't that much to do apart from checking the spring tension and keeping the friction surfaces of the ratchet mechanisms of the feed sprocket and the top foil pu
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 02 16:58:40 EDT 2008 | jmelson
If these are similar to the earlier CSM feeders, there are several things to check. The cover plate that holds the tape on the sprocket can be adjusted slightly by eccentrics to accomodate thicker tapes. It the cover is too tight, there will be bin
Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 29 11:46:26 EDT 2008 | johnnie52
I'm new at this and any help will be appreciated. I received cad data from a customer and need to get it loaded into a Topaz system. The data is for a single board but the production board is panelized and has edge rails. This means that the actual
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 01 13:45:12 EDT 2008 | realchunks
The actual solder joint occurs BETWEEN the part and the pad. Adding more solder on top will add strength slightly, just by being in the way when you pull on it sideways. A weak joint with a weeks worth of solder on it will still be weak. Solder is
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 01 21:52:48 EDT 2008 | davef
Have you considered developing your own wave solder super-trooper? * Training course at your equipmemt supplier or daylong on-site training by equipment supplier field service * Training at ACI / EMPF or someplace like that * On-line training at a pl
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 14 10:42:47 EDT 2008 | ck_the_flip
Patrick...I'll give you a couple of examples. Wave Soldering, the Science: you're getting solder shorts and you slow your belt speed down just a bit knowing that this effectively lowers your contact length and improves your peel-back for that tou
