Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 31 13:34:43 EST 2000 | PAUL WOOD
HELLO CUSTOMERS OF OK LATEST INFORMATION UPDATE WITH REFERENCE TO OLD BGA 2000 MACHINES WHICH ARE NOW 6YEARS OLD MANY NEW INVENTIONS WHICH HAVE TAKEN PLACE CAN BE PURCHASED FROM METCAL TO BRING YOU TO THE FOREFRONT OF TECHNOLOGY.(PATENTED TO ) BGA 30
Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 22 20:59:51 EST 2000 | Jeff Sanchez
Michael, I am not sure if you are trying to lay out a board with vias in the pads or suffer through an assembly you got stuck with? I am building run of boards right now that has vias in most the smt pads. I'm sure the design group thought it was
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 21 17:58:44 EST 1999 | Brian W.
When doing PIH processes, it is critical that you control the solder VOLUME, not the height. You must define the process, monitor it and control chart it to keep the paste volume consistent. You have do some careful engineering to determine how muc
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 07 16:34:54 EST 1999 | Russ
Wolfgang, I appreciate your continued feedback! The main reason that I shortened the Time Above Liquidous (TAL) was it appeared that I was burning off all of the flux from the paste. By shortening the TAL to 45 seconds and decreasing peak temp to
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 09 19:45:48 EST 1999 | Steve Thomas
1 Money IS an object, and my boss will be thrilled. The stencil manufacturer recommended ovals to facilitate better release. Seems likely to be true, but whether or not it's necessary I don't know. We have perpendicular walls on these (6 mil) ste
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 19 22:48:26 EST 1999 | mark
Steve, your comments from your stencil vendor are very interesting. Any decent laser cutter automatically cuts a trapezoidal aperture. This is just the nature of the cutting. We have a bunch of lasers (and chem-etch). You have to polish your laser cu
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 25 14:48:29 EDT 1999 | William
All, I am having a problem with joints being soft after SMT. Especially 25 mil and smaller parts. It seems as though you can slide the leads right off of the solder. It takes only about 30-40 oz. of compression at 45 deg. to move leads off of join
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 14 18:02:31 EDT 1999 | JohnW
Bryan, 0402's tombstonning isn't that uncommon and usually the 1st reaction is alway's the pad size aint right. If you've followed the IPC guidline's normally you should be fine but I'd double check the component supplier's spec's as well. brian's p
Electronics Forum | Sat Oct 09 04:17:21 EDT 1999 | Brian
| Can anyone tell me the formula/method to determine | the amount of weight that solder's surface tension can support. | (ie: Maximum weight of components soldered onto a bottom side | of a board during a top side reflow on a Paste/Paste process). |
Electronics Forum | Sat Oct 09 07:33:23 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| | Can anyone tell me the formula/method to determine | | the amount of weight that solder's surface tension can support. | | (ie: Maximum weight of components soldered onto a bottom side | | of a board during a top side reflow on a Paste/Paste proc
