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selective soldering - best practices for board design??

Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 03 08:02:48 EST 2008 | dstevenson

hi all and a happy new year, does anyone know if there are any industry best practices for board design in terms of selective soldering?? Whilst right now the product portfolio of my company is not suitable for the introduction of a selective solderi

SMT feeder adapters

Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 31 08:51:31 EST 2008 | tonyamenson

I just made a more in depth query on the floor and what I thought was one issue is many many issues. We are hadn placing parts that came in bulk instead of tubes, another issue is the vision system won't register teh part corrrectly, another is the

BGA Baking in Reels?

Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 01 15:09:43 EST 2008 | chef

Don't do it.!!!! Are you nucking futs? Why is pre-bake required? Are you producing in high humidity? Is the package of the device poroues enough to suck in moisture? Think, consider you will not get an even "bake", the outside of the reel will get

upgrading pnp

Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 04 11:10:47 EST 2008 | dphilbrick

Although Mydata is probably your best choice they are hard to come by used. If you have the budget for a CP7 you could easily get a refurb from MyData. What ever you do don't buy a Fuji for low volume! Although many might disagree with me a Siemens

upgrading pnp

Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 25 15:06:43 EST 2008 | dyoungquist

MyData machines are probably your best choice for low volume/high mix applications. Change over times can be minimal when you are loading your extra magazines/feeders for the next job while the previous job is running on the machine. Component plac

Wire soldering

Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 11 19:43:56 EDT 2008 | davef

While it's possible, we don't think that soldering a wire of this low of an AWG to a board is a good idea. We're concerned that mechanical vibration and heating / cooling will stress the solder connection to the point of failure during routine table

Quad Qsv-1 Low House Air Pressure

Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 29 08:27:34 EST 2008 | tbkonrad

This morning I turned on our Qsv-1 and ai resiveved the following error. "Clamp did not open: House Air pressure may be lower then 70 psi" after checking the Air Pressure it reads at 80 psi on the Main air pressure gauge as well as the 80 psi on the

Solder Wave Dross/Dirt

Electronics Forum | Wed May 28 09:46:48 EDT 2008 | andrzej

What I can recommend is : - clean your wave frequently, frames, etc. - looks like you have too much dross. Do you use phosphorus pills or do you have soldering alloy with phosphorus to limit as much as possible dross creation. - are you soldering

Barcodes for PCBs - what systems?

Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 11 10:23:07 EDT 2008 | charliedci

Hi, > > we have to print a serial barcode on a low > volume PCB. For another module we just used our > laser printer and cut the labels to > size. > > However, those laser labels are easy to > rub off, and the new labels are much > smaller. >

Barcodes for PCBs - what systems?

Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 12 23:41:51 EDT 2008 | pickyplacer

charliem, thanks for the reply. I have to admit that I find writing barcodes with a pen a little difficult. AR, I still look at writing directly onto the PCB. But seems those systems are really expensive. I will look further into the normal label


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