Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 20 03:42:41 EDT 1999 | Brian
Cunli Greatest news since sliced bread! Thank you. Brian | Dear Earl, Steve, Scott, Bob, Brian, and All, | | We want to thank you for starting or participating in the dialog and for your continued input, both technical and site related. | | Our
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 16 05:11:47 EST 1999 | Charles Stringer
| | AVX and a few other companies make these chip transient voltage suppressors (TVS) parts that are a real *PAIN* to use. According to AVX: | | "Due to the semiconducting nature of the doped Zinc Oxide (ZnO) ceramic material, SMT TransGuard
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 11 11:33:36 EST 1999 | Bob Willis
As part of an analysis of the status of lead-free soldering National Physical Laboratory in the UK is undertaking a short survey, and would be grateful if you would spare a few minutes to answer a few questions. The SMART Group is providing five Int
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 07 10:09:51 EST 2000 | Kevin
John, Depends on what you're cleaning (paste, adhesive, ink, etc..) and your process (do operators just dump a dirty stencil in and expect a clean one out, drying time, effect on the polyester). I could suggest a couple of name brand cleaners, but I
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 31 14:52:25 EST 2000 | Dr. Kantesh Doss
Hi Antonio: You clearly have printed excessive amount of solder paste on the pad. You can reduce the amount of paste by one or two methods: 1. Switchover to 5 mil thick stencils. 2. Change the design of your stencil openings (at the discrete compone
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 16 12:49:30 EDT 2000 | Bill Schreiber
Phil, I know it must be frustrating to try and weed through all of the hype that is put out by various stencil cleaner manufacturers. However, there is some impartial published data available. An article by Richard Clouthier (now with Photo Stenc
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 11 15:59:52 EDT 2000 | JohnW
George, I looked at the winkic & profit software and tool's a while ago along with some of the alternatives. No matter what anyone tell's you in the 1st instance you do still need a profile card as what you are doing is comparing the known good prof
Electronics Forum | Tue May 30 11:51:43 EDT 2000 | JAX
Sal, I have seen this problem placing SMT connectors which exceed 60mm in length. Although I did not use siemens equipment at the time I am not sure if they will place enought force to seat the entire connector flush to the board. They have a maximun
Electronics Forum | Thu May 11 21:12:09 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Andy: Welcome. Several points: 1 Be careful in your statistics quoting reverie, particularly on archives use. September was about the time of one of the server upgrades. As part of one of those changes, the previously outstanding, although sadl
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 17 12:16:02 EST 2000 | Brian W.
My old company (CM) ran SMT to 50ppm including some very complex boards. We established the normalizer number by: #components + #solder joints. As was stated earlier, the ppm for any given product is the result of many factors. You may get differen
