Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 11 11:59:00 EST 2012 | sarason
The issue is surface tension around the connector. Your tip needs to have more surface tension than the pins of the connector as it forms a cluster when being soldered. When I used to solder superfine connectors with a metcal iron it had a horses hoa
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 12 09:46:32 EST 2012 | rway
You can go with smaller chip parts (0805 to 0603 or smaller). What size is D1? Can you go to a smaller package. Provide more details. You may not have the real estate to include the silksreen (i.e. reference designators). Consider omitting them.
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 28 02:31:54 EST 2012 | sarason
UFOS is the language of that generation of philips/Yamaha Surface mount machine. Indeed there are other commands. My program PCBSynergy, generates 2 variations of UFOS that will likely program that machine. Unfortunately my copy of these is in storag
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 23 20:02:46 EST 2013 | darby
MACHINE CONFIG> MOUNT R ATTR. You have the choice of REL or ABS. Until you get these sorted and understand the differences you may struggle a bit with rotations. Should be in the manual. I always ran REL, which means the mount angle is relative to th
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 18 14:24:07 EST 2013 | davef
Here's the story: * Solder will melt and alloy with the solder alloy that you have in the pot. * Flux will smoke, smell and leave schmutz floating on the surface of the solder in the pot. While the amount of smoke, smell and schmutz are variables, b
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 18 21:13:51 EST 2013 | ngineer
I was trying to set up a new board, and after creating the board directory, the CC spit back a line of garbage and said the directory was invalid. I pressed escape to start over, and it froze. Now when i start it every time, it goes through login a
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 25 13:07:31 EST 2013 | johng
Thank you for replying Phil. We use water only wash at 130°F and at 4 ft/min (about 2 min). They are mostly dried by the hot ait knife and left to air dry until next day. The operators do not wear gloves. When I run a bare board through the same pro
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 30 16:36:24 EST 2013 | gmcvay6929
Reese, We had that problem a few years back. Simplimatic would not send us any information to fix it. We had to send the controller back to Simplimatic and have them fix the software in the controller. I noticed your chiefs logo on your name. I
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 28 13:13:19 EST 2013 | chifutbol
I am just being introduced to GemLine and Assembleon. I have been trying to get the programs on two other computers so we get more work done. One is windows 7, the other is vista. I was unable to get PCP explorer or editor installed on the windows
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 30 11:45:37 EST 2013 | caerleon
We have 4 machines and the boss wont get rid of them or upgrade them. They are still working after all these years, but it is the programming that is taking the time. What i wanted to know is if anyone knows of a software that specifically deals wit