Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 20 12:46:21 EST 2012 | deanm
If 3-5% of the attempted parts placed are dropped, you have a serious problem...that's 1 part dropped for every 20 or 30 placements. Does it mean that it drops the part in the scrap bin and then successfully places the same part or would the board co
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 08 09:21:03 EST 2012 | ngineer
What Should I use to clean a sticking conveyor > belts in my pick an place machine (Quad IVc)? > The belts seem to have what I would guess to be > solder paste that is dried, but also they seem to > be a bit gunked up as if they had gotten some o
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 11 17:00:28 EDT 2012 | rodrigo
Hi all, Our cp4 moves rather violently (jerks) all axis when the reset sw is pressed after power up. I've got all sorts of errors after boot up: Servo amp error: D,X,Y, etc Overtravel D,X,Y, etc D clutch error, power off machine We've checked all
Electronics Forum | Wed May 23 08:39:37 EDT 2012 | tony_d
Thomas, We evaluated several AOI machines and narrowed the field to two, YESTech and MIRTEC. We had an opportunity to work with both of these machines on our production floor. In our experience, the MIRTEC machine simply outperformed the competitive
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 03 03:26:26 EDT 2013 | sarason
I have had some experience with both Manncorp specifically the 7722 machine and the Essemtec 7100. Both machines are supported in my software PCBSynergy. http://members.iinet.net.au/~sarason/ The service from Manncorp for my friends machine after s
Electronics Forum | Wed May 09 03:13:06 EDT 2012 | umar
I had send my coating board to the test lab for adhesion coating test. 3 times send, the result 3times fail. The coating chemical use is Humiseal 1B31. The process is clean the boards at washing process use the Vigon A200 saponifier mix with DI wate
Electronics Forum | Sun May 13 02:08:26 EDT 2012 | isd_jwendell
In testing 63/37 SnPb NC paste I have seen HUGE differences in performance. Have you tried a different paste? I prefer AIM (NC257-2), they have performed well in each round of testing. My observations regarding mixing old and new paste: The paste ha
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 21 16:30:47 EDT 2012 | grauen06
We are currently using an ACE K.I.S.S. 104. We used SN100 solder with AIM NC265 flux (no clean, alcohol-based). Also, we use topside preheat at 100 degrees C and a 6mm nozzle (as big as we can go with this application). The PCB has a matte finish as
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 22 21:07:08 EDT 2012 | tank1266
I have had Selective issues such as yours on two very different Selective Solder Machines. I was able to eliminate these issues by using Alpha EF-9301 wave flux with any SAC305 solder. It's a more aggressive flux, but really made the difference. Anot
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 01 09:27:21 EDT 2012 | grics
I am looking to send a couple of employees to take some focused training in six sigma. It would more than likely be at the beginner level, overview to green belt. We are a smaller contract manufacturer and want to implement more use of six sigma me