Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 23 19:57:18 EDT 2011 | dlou87
Im sure this has been gone over before, but what the heck! We are mounting LEDs on metal core PCBs. Almost all of them have domes of silicone on top. We have some large boards (largest is 2ft x 3") Not concerned with parts/hour or fancy features.
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 24 11:04:41 EDT 2011 | smt_guy
Hi, I have a 2.75" x 1" x 0.027"thick CCA with SOIC16W and QFN56 as well as some 0201's, 0402's and QFN16 Components that are to be enclosed via molding process. Is there any Insert Moling, Over Molding Circuit Card Assembly Guidelines out there fr
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 01 17:45:31 EDT 2011 | smt_guy
thanks for all your replies. we tried running our beta runs and have lots of issues. first our molding process which was set to 450'F temp at 1200 PSI smashed the circuit card components and penetrated the epoxy compound we used to encapsulate the C
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 01 03:02:59 EDT 2011 | grahamcooper22
starting point with zone settings would be, 100 / 160 / 200 / 225 / 260 deg C...but you'll have to check the exact profile on the pcb with a reflow profiler....making sure you meet the paste spec and making sure you don't heat any devices up to quic
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 05 15:32:49 EDT 2011 | grahamcooper22
It is one of our pastes...Almit LFM48 W TM-HP, a high reliability no clean solder paste based on SAC305 with a size 4 powder. It's a paste that works so well we have thousands of users of it worldwide. Why are you using SN100C alloy paste ? I imagin
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 06 04:19:52 EDT 2011 | grahamcooper22
Almit are specialists in formulating fluxes for pastes and wires for the very very demanding Japanese assembly market. And the key to good SMT is how the flux performs...and our formulation improvements are driven by requests from the companies who a
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 31 20:16:31 EDT 2011 | tkirk
We recently decided to try using a different source for our bare boards to save money. On two different batches of PCBs now from the new source, we are seeing beading including some serious enough to short out underneath 0805 parts. We have never re
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 01 02:56:18 EDT 2011 | grahamcooper22
the cause could be moisture in your pcbs. To check it...pass some bare pcbs through your reflow oven (this is a simple way of drying them out a bit), then paste and place and reflow as normal....if solder beads disappear then the pcbs have too much m
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 01 00:30:45 EDT 2011 | bigvern
Hi, we have a issue with a Dage , Xray, curious as to if any other have had same, we cannot get the the Vacuum level in the tube to the correct level, it builds up and builds up, but never reaches correct set point so that we can calbrate or use the
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 05 14:42:41 EDT 2011 | clampron
Bigvern, We have had the same problem on two different occasions. Both issues were caused by the vacuum sensor. The first time this happened, we had a tech from Dage in to repair. This was fairly costly. When it happened again, we opened the cabinet
