Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 24 19:26:25 EST 1999 | Marc Ruggiero
| Hi Folks, | This is my first surface mount board, so I asked our assembly house for some tips. They said only passives on the bottom side-preferably no smaller than 0805, 0603 only if I have to. I would think that an SOT-23 would be OK on the botto
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 17 19:58:00 EST 1999 | Marc Ruggiero
Hi folks, I am looking for inputs on a long-standing problem encountered in our shop: Bottom-side parts (passives) falling off in the Wave...where the only remnants of the part is a flattened glue dot of proper diameter and volume, and sometimes f
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 17 22:04:05 EST 1999 | Dave F
| Looking for a company that makes a small batch reflow oven. Not a belt-style convection oven, but a cabinet style that can 125 c to 150 c. | | Thank you | Matt: The batch ovens we looked at were very difficult to program. They seemed to want t
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 16 17:05:14 EST 1999 | Jeff Dahlin
We are having a small number (~2%) of our boards pass our manufacturing diagnostics, fail once they reach the customer, fail when they get back to us and then start working again after handling them for a short time. We have eliminated a lot of item
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 17 09:32:35 EST 1999 | Dave F
| We are having a small number (~2%) of our boards pass our manufacturing diagnostics, fail once they reach the customer, fail when they get back to us and then start working again after handling them for a short time. We have eliminated a lot of it
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 16 15:59:40 EST 1999 | GSM GURU!
| I am in need of feeder that that will feed a 76mm wide tape @ a 60mm pitch to be used on a Universal GSM. | It is not a standard tractor feed, so it would require quite a bit of ingenuity. | Does anyone out there know of someone who designs and bui
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 15 18:42:35 EST 1999 | Dean
| | Are stencils universal from one printer to another? We are looking into the possibility of going from Solderprint 1414 manual printer to a more automated printer. We are also considering bringing some boards we currently outsource in house. I
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 15 13:33:46 EST 1999 | Stefan Witte
| Is there anyone know where to get information on PIck & Place equipment Program optimisation ( to improve the speed of component placement for boards). Thank you | Program optimization usually includes set up optimization for the feeder table(s) a
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 15 15:52:38 EST 1999 | Earl Moon
| After switching from No-clean flux to Water soluble (Kester)we encountered voids problem (X-ray and microsectioning). Reducing the apperture sizes made the voids smaller but did not eliminate them. So we had to go back to No-clean. Any idea why voi
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 15 16:01:06 EST 1999 | Earl Moon
| Does anyone have any recommendations on spray fluxers? Are there major differences between the high priced ultrasonic machines to the low priced flux/air spraying machines? We are going to be spraying an OA flux with 11% solids content. Are there a
