Electronics Forum | Thu May 24 13:14:59 EDT 2007 | mfgengr
The answer is simple...kind of. The short answer in terms of total cost (if you don't run an air conditioner) is there is no difference. The technical answer is: The First Law of Thermodynamics - Conservation of Energy applies. You have an entire s
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 12 15:11:20 EST 1999 | Earl Moon
| | I have an Electrovert UPK 660c fitted with IR preheats top and bottom. We assemble a large range of multilayer backplanes and I was wondering if there are any advantages in changing to convection preheats.Has anybody got any views on the subject.
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 17 10:45:27 EDT 1998 | Justin Medernach
| We have problems with voids when we solder lids to | ceramic flatpackages. | The sealring of the package is gold(100 micro inches or 2.5 micro meters)with a underlayer of Nickel | The solder is attached to the lid (preform) and the solder material
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 07 10:57:31 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| | | | Where I can find some informations about repairing of SMT boards? | | | | | | | | Thanks | | | | | | | | Marcos | | | | | | | A first place to start is IPC's 7711 and 7721 encompasing repair, modification, and rework procedures. | | | |
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 18 08:49:12 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | We have problems with voids when we solder lids to | | ceramic flatpackages. | | The sealring of the package is gold(100 micro inches or 2.5 micro meters)with a underlayer of Nickel | | The solder is attached to the lid (preform) and the solder
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 23 21:24:42 EST 2000 | Dave F
Chris: Whatever way you decide to define your pads, use the same type on the component and the board. Non-solder mask defined pad advantages: � No point-of-stress concentration at edge mask and solder ball � No CTE mismatch at edge mask and solder
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 16 15:29:15 EST 2000 | John S.
My company manufactures electronic modules for the automotive industry. We have a current product that the customer would like a "heavy duty" version of. The module will have to handle roughly twice as much power as the original. A couple of compo
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 10 09:08:21 EST 2000 | C.K.
We've got this hard-to-Wave-solder board where all of the SMD's are on a ground plane - in fact the entire bottom-side is a ground plane. Our designers have incorporated thermal relief on some of the pads, but for reasons unknown to us, they don't h
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 10 17:47:50 EST 2000 | Dave F
I can�t imagine a high trace count, high via count ceramic board matching-up on price with a FR4 board. http://www.coorstek.com/coorstek/coorstek.asp?menu=literature&reference=literature.asp But that�s not really the issue, is it? The issue is the r
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 12 12:22:52 EDT 2000 | stefano bolleri
This is a question about LCDs (Liquid Crystal Displays) packaged as SIPs or DIPs. My question is: can they be wave-soldered? I found process recommendations on Web pages of several LCD suppliers, and they pretty much all say that LCDs should NEVER be