Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 05 11:42:15 EST 2001 | John
We are planning out an expansion project. Currently we have vinyl esd tile in our production area. We've found this to be expensive, easy to damage, and a pain to repair. Has anyone had any experience with ESD floor coatings/paints??? Any advice
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 05 13:56:41 EST 2001 | csullivan
We currently use a "wax" ESD coating on our floor. It is cheap and easy to repair. However, the maintenace on it is extensive. It also needs to be re-"waxed" quite often. There are permant coatings out there. I have started to look into these pro
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 04 03:01:34 EST 2001 | Sal
Guys Has anybody out there purchased or had any experience with the ECD Fluxometer. I've been shown a very quick demonsration but I'm still not 100% confident. For instance the mesh thickness is 0.006 mil and the yet the thickness of our boards are
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 03 21:14:04 EST 2001 | Greenman
This is news to me that I seriously doubt. Couldn't be someone from the competition that told you this, could it? Tim Skidmore just got made Chair of the IPC Solder Paste Task Group, so if they're pulling out of solder altogether (to do what instead
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 21 17:17:36 EST 2000 | Lee
I was talking to a field rep. for Electrovert when they installed my last machine about bent fingers. He told me there was a aftermarket source for rigid fingers that were made out of a thermoplastic that would shear off rather than bend. Is there
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 21 20:01:47 EST 2000 | teohbengee
Thanks for ur help. But i dun think i will call u bcoz i am in MALAYSIA. What i need is just information of how to carry out or design a test to test for the PCBA reliability. If u can send me some infomation on this, i will be very appreaciated. Tha
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 30 21:23:44 EST 2000 | Dave F
Design more products and get wealthy. Don't waste your time and energy in areas that others are accomplished. A friend designs boards, sells $10M [what that is in euro, funny money, I don't know or care] of them a year, with a company of five [in
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 30 23:31:49 EST 2000 | CAL
Dave F- FYI SMFL3000 is a manual placement/ reflow machine from Dima SMT (WWW.DIMASMT.com)origin, the Netherlands. In the USA Manncorp Reps Dima. I would reflow each IC component by itself and do an isolated mass reflow on the chips, then run to a s
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 21 15:49:01 EST 2000 | CAL
Dave- this may not be much current help but for future needs: IPC-7525 Stencil Design Guidelines is due out real soon. Check with IPC on its status, last I heard it was in interim Final.What is nice about this Doccument is that it also covers Pin_Thr
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 02 19:54:45 EDT 2001 | Steve
George, Did you ever get to the bottom of your XY offset issue. I am a user of Protel and SMS Linecontrol, and know the system well. You probably need to find out if the Protel XY is the component center or Pin 1. The SMS Linecontrol Protel modul
