Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 11 14:45:03 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | I was wanting to know if double sided reflow can be done with a metal plated BGA on topside. We would be running bottom side first. My boss seems to think the only way it can be done is by placing glue dots on the bottomside compoents because t
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 10 15:41:59 EDT 1998 | Chrys
| Is a machine available to straighten QFP legs | Where? | How much? | Anygood? Ben, Texas Instruments makes a way cool machine for straightening bent QPF leads. It's totally automatic. It'll pick'em out of waffle trays, do a vision inspect for, "t
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 03 15:43:18 EDT 1998 | Tim Flanagan
I need advice for locating 23 Gull wing LED's (all in a straight line) in the x,y, and z axis for a SMT PCB. It is a Hewlett Packard LED (P/N HMLA-QH00-01). The application uses a CCD to detect the position of a ball which floats in a resevior for
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 03 14:09:22 EDT 1998 | Matthew Park
Rich, From my experience, few causes of capacitor cracking are: - mechanical stress caused by pick'n place nozzles and chucks. Try to isolate and find cracked caps before boards go thru reflow or wavsoldering. - thermal stress by reflow pro
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 25 14:31:35 EDT 1998 | Cunli Jia @ SMTnet
To All, We have found several fake e-mail addresses on the Forum, most of them from one individual. We hereby announce that the following addresses are fake: hello@smtnet.com hi@smtnet.com astounded@smtnet.com thrilled@smtnet.com The SMT Forum and al
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 24 14:15:11 EDT 1998 | Scott Cook
We have found several fake e-mail addresses on the Forum, most of them from one individual. We hereby announce that the following addresses are fake: hello@smtnet.com hi@smtnet.com astounded@smtnet.com The SMT Forum and all of SMTnet is geared towar
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 18 16:10:40 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| Question: | If a PCB and the lands of a part both had electroless plating, would there be a higher tendancy for intermetallics to form in and on the solderjoint...versus just the PCB or Just the part being plated? | I'm currently running into this
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 24 15:23:47 EDT 1998 | Dana Wentworth
| I am interested in hearing about people's experiences with buying used pick and place and stencil printing equipment. For example, was the cost saving worth the experience, was technical support available before and after the sale, did you deal dir
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 20 09:38:02 EDT 1998 | JUSTIN MEDERNACH
| I am interested in hearing about people's experiences with buying used pick and place and stencil printing equipment. For example, was the cost saving worth the experience, was technical support available before and after the sale, did you deal dir
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 13 12:15:08 EDT 1998 | Mike Cox
| I am interested in hearing about people's experiences with buying used pick and place and stencil printing equipment. For example, was the cost saving worth the experience, was technical support available before and after the sale, did you deal dir