Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 28 09:03:43 EST 2011 | ldavis
Shannon, We have been using VP for all of our lead free production since 2007. Here are the items I can think of off the top of my head. Pro's - small footprint, minimal profiling needed once machine is understood, oxygen free soldering process, s
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 31 08:59:38 EST 2011 | kennypascarelli
I have an oven that now wants me to tune and can't do anything until I enter a password. The big problem is I don't know the password. Any way to find it or bypass it. Figured it out, the machine has a battery back-up and it needed to be replaced.
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 19 10:27:38 EST 2011 | kahrpr
Just a thought. What is the real shelf life of the past? Do manufactures low ball the self life to sell more paste. If the past is perfectly good one day before the expiration date is it still bad one day after I doubt it. Right or wrong I have seen
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 23 07:36:22 EST 2011 | scottp
We have a new site that is in the process of starting up and doesn't run much (1 tube every couple weeks). They recently called me about using expired paste. I told them to print a few scrap boards and run them through SPI to verify good print and
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 01 23:55:41 EST 2011 | cmguan79
Hi all, Need help troubleshooting for I've just bought a 1997 second-hand oven HVC102. Unfortunately, after loading profile & press run mode we found all TC READING IS ZERO & CONVEYOR READING FEEDBACK IS ZERO SHOWN ON MONITOR SCREEN ,& I LOSS PA
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 17 11:15:26 EDT 2011 | circleprime
I did some investigating and it seemed that getting a reflow oven with an inert atmosphere could be the answer to the inconsistant wetting issues that we are having with a leadfree DFN-10 on one of our products. Here's my question(s). It seems that
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 18 13:12:12 EDT 2011 | mikeyjryan
Hello, I am looking for advice on getting the best use out of a new offline SPI machine that my company have bought. I am preparing a procedure for production and I would like to get people’s experience of the following: - Procedure for using a offl
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 22 16:48:05 EDT 2011 | kmots15
We use an evaporator plumbed into the output of the stencil washer, it works great and reduces our Haz waste. You might need to get some form of permit first as this could be considered treating Haz waste in some areas, depends if you do Pb on your
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 24 11:04:41 EDT 2011 | smt_guy
Hi, I have a 2.75" x 1" x 0.027"thick CCA with SOIC16W and QFN56 as well as some 0201's, 0402's and QFN16 Components that are to be enclosed via molding process. Is there any Insert Moling, Over Molding Circuit Card Assembly Guidelines out there fr
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 31 20:16:31 EDT 2011 | tkirk
We recently decided to try using a different source for our bare boards to save money. On two different batches of PCBs now from the new source, we are seeing beading including some serious enough to short out underneath 0805 parts. We have never re
