Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 26 10:15:04 EST 2000 | Christopher Lampron
Maurice, I have worked with several different platforms of P&P machines and have a couple of thoughts regarding features and ease of use. The Contact Systems 3 series machines are versitile and very user friendly. I contribute this to the touch scree
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 25 14:25:47 EST 2000 | Mark Miller
Has any one experienced hand soldering through hole components to white tin plated PCB's using no-clean wire solder? Our facility is presently evaluating white tin vs Sn/Pb coatings. Our only difficulty at this time has been hand soldering of wires
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 31 13:34:43 EST 2000 | PAUL WOOD
HELLO CUSTOMERS OF OK LATEST INFORMATION UPDATE WITH REFERENCE TO OLD BGA 2000 MACHINES WHICH ARE NOW 6YEARS OLD MANY NEW INVENTIONS WHICH HAVE TAKEN PLACE CAN BE PURCHASED FROM METCAL TO BRING YOU TO THE FOREFRONT OF TECHNOLOGY.(PATENTED TO ) BGA 30
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 18 03:00:23 EST 2000 | cklau
Hi there; CAD s/w and h/w are very expensive investment these day's , exspecially for EDA(Electronic Design Automation).Since that many of the CAD data is not compatible to each other format then it is very important that they choose the right one.H
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 12 20:20:54 EST 2000 | Bene
I had the opportunity to spend time with a demo and one on one with the inventor of the Ersa scope inhouse a few months ago. I see the scope complimenting X-ray inspection but not as a substitue. It allows you to view attributes of a solder joint t
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 06 17:56:14 EST 2000 | Brian W.
I agree with Dave that passte volume is the most preferable criteria. However, you need to determine what you will accept and what your process is capable of. You need to define the process parameters, put procedures in place to control them, reduc
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 17 09:47:10 EST 1999 | John O'Brien
Chuck: Your best resource is the Symbology Research Center in Huntsville AL. In is a research and development facility run by RVSI Acuity CiMatrix, the folks who invented the Data matrix (DM) 2-D code. This facility is unbiased as to technologies and
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 16 06:59:43 EST 1999 | Christopher Lampron
Calvin, We have found several reasons for solder beading occurance. We have found that solder balling is usually directly attributed to the reflow profile while solder beading is usually (but not always) a result of either excessive solder paste volu
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 13 21:11:53 EST 1999 | Curtis T.
Steve, I have done countless board profiling and oven reflow profiles. Here are the critical factors on you need to address. What is your board surface finish, if it is something like an OSP it will need a good amount of an active (aqueous) flux to
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 06 03:54:57 EST 1999 | Chris May
Hi Russ, I have a similar situation. I have been told that this can be caused by the nickel, over which the gold is plated, can result in suspect joints, embrittlement etc. Some joints can even be weak and broken without much force on some of my boa
