Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 10 15:39:20 EST 2003 | bpan
Thanks for all the info guys. Dont think that the problem is a thermal one and I believe the guys designing the board just need to design them out. I have directed the customers we get the boards from to read this posted question so that they could s
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 13 10:38:51 EST 2003 | davef
Given that you are bridging front to back, contast the situation with the thiefs used to prevent bridging when wave soldering SOIC. If this is reasonable, the thiefs should be located behind the trailing connector pins. You can prove-out this [and
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 14 17:42:11 EST 2003 | dgjjr
I would agree on keeping the gaps to a minimum but make sure you have enough maintenance access to the pick and place and oven. Pulling a conveyor out with an 1/8th on either side is no fun. Same goes for bolting to the floor, make sure you can unb
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 26 21:38:08 EST 2003 | jonfox
1. First and foremost is paste alignment. If you start out of the gates with a bad paste/pad relationship, it will be nothing but problems down the line. AOI is not required, but dial in the alignment, QC if necessary, then introduce the boards to
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 24 10:15:56 EST 2003 | JF
I'm triying to upgrade the software on my Qsa-30A(V) going from version 5.4 to version 6.6 and I'm having lot of problems, my machine will just not respond to any command does anyone knows how how to jump from one versio to another one with out any p
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 26 14:59:32 EST 2003 | Brent Robinson
To be honest with you, I'm not sure. Just started working here and they were using U Shaped aperatures on 0603 caps/resistors and getting dry pads. After checking out the programming, no matter how much I slow down the screen printer or what I do,
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 03 11:12:49 EST 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi I have seen a few different ways to do this, including hand solder for certain PIH (pin in hole) components as the last operation. Search the archives would be one place for you to look Buy or Borrow one of the SMT Books out in the market. Ther
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 05 13:37:20 EST 2003 | msivigny
Hello James, It sounds like the system that's being used to gather this data is an AOI system. I will investigte this more because I'm very curious of the process in which this works. I'll keep an eye out for someone using this setup and may get back
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 13 14:05:21 EST 2003 | clarkk
Gregory, Check out IPC document EMSI-TC2. It is available for purchase on the IPC website (www.ipc.org/) and covers the items you mentioned, as well as many others. The only thing we add to it is an arbitration clause that we wrote with help from the
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 14 20:18:45 EDT 2003 | adlsmt
We use DBA. dbasoftware.com They are supposed to come out with a new version in the next few weeks. Its cheap for something with integrated accounting and its decent but its still stuck in "windows sort of but works like dos". Hope the re-write is be
