Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 20 22:26:50 EST 2005 | fastek
I have people ask me on occasion how many hours an oven has run and for the life of me can't figure out why they would want to know that. Who cares? They work until they don't...not much middle ground...unlike a chipshooter which will reach a point t
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 21 13:39:15 EST 2005 | Chunks
Directors and company owners care since they're buying it. It's like an odometer on a car - just an indicator. But like your chipshooter example, moving parts on an oven wear out too. They just don't stop working. Plus they're subjected to higher
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 26 09:51:51 EST 2005 | jbrower
Sure, to be a true lead free enviroment all components need to be lead free or fall within the specifications of lead free as defined by the RoHS Directive. What I am doing is starting stage 1 of our journey. Layed out it looks some thing like this.
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 01 11:54:14 EST 2005 | TomA
Indy, I found the same findings as you. The claim is that the solder joint may actually look closer to a SnPb solder joint then the SAC alloys. I had commited to the SAC alloys at SMT before finding out about the SN100C alloy. I'm interested in what
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 01 12:52:19 EST 2005 | jbrower
Hi Tom, I did talk to Bob Gilbert about the sn100c. His comment is that it is a nickle stabalized alloy. Simplisticly, the tin and copper molecules would rather bond with the nickle. He also mentioned that with the SAC alloys, the manufactuers were
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 21 10:02:18 EST 2005 | Steve C.
We have 2 different wave machines. An Electrovert with a foam flux and a Vitronics with a spray flux that is no-clean. We started noticing on the Vitronics that we were flooding inside the wave fixture. After further review we noticed that the angle
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 05 14:51:49 EST 2005 | etienne
One important thing to look at, when buying an AOI is the False Calls Rate, along with tact time of machine to inspect the PCB. Obviously, many machines can do the the work....but it's also true that each machine differ from the way it do the work. S
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 31 05:25:54 EST 2005 | gaurav
Morning All, > > I have to choice between two > axial through hole machines: Panasert AVK 3 and > Universal VCD Sequencer 8. I will insert axial > components with 0,45 mm to 0,8 mm component lead > diameter and perform jumper wire insertion in t
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 26 11:34:10 EST 2005 | attilio
As per the title. I'm a manufacturing engineer writing from Italy. We have an old oven ETS/Universal branded that needs to replace a control card. It's an IR lamp oven still utilized to cure glue. Unluckily here there's no more availability of the
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 27 11:33:59 EST 2005 | russ
For what you have right now I would recommend that you use soldering iron tips that are made for component removal. until you get BGAs I wouldn't worry a whole lot about the expensive rework equipment. I would use specialty tips and a heat gun wit
