Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 12 15:56:50 EST 2004 | pdeuel
Thanks, That's the direction i'm headed. After by passing relay altogeather, testing large caps for the driver supply, replacing bridge rectifiers, and the MOV's, that's about all im left with. The vacuum motor will run with the software toggle witho
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 17 09:51:25 EST 2004 | AS
I'm looking for advise on setting up a prototype station for smt (we are currently outsourcing smt production, but have a need for rapid in house prototyping). The station must be able to handle only single sided boards with components no smaller th
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 20 09:29:36 EST 2004 | JB
You are not giving the dimensions of the space to be used by your machines. So it's impossible to know what we are working with. But here is scenario for a very small floor space assuming that you can't have the equipment in a single line: I am ass
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 16 01:30:33 EST 2004 | vinitverma
I respect your statements about the FCM-I but only partially. Yes it was meant for ONLY HIGH VOLUMES, but in those cases, it has proved to be a masterpeice. Talk to those who've used the machines for 70000 hours or so. I have customers here that're u
Electronics Forum | Sun Dec 26 21:18:04 EST 2004 | tellinghuisen
Chris, We also do not allow the use of Lead-Free BGAs in a lead based process. It is actually one of the things that scares us most about converting to Pb-free. Most of the suppliers that we have talked with are planning on moving to the SAC
Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 08 00:47:15 EST 2005 | rodionp
Hello, I was wondering if anyone of you would like to test our software before we go release. The plan is to release that soft some time before March 2005. But before that I want to get people to use it with hopes that they will "brake" something...
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 13 09:55:44 EST 2005 | fasst1
Rob, I actually work for Philips / Assembleon. We have had machines out in the field for 18+ years that are still in production. The customer I mentioned has had the gear for 4 years. They also do multiple changeovers every day, and each one take
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 13 11:55:42 EST 2005 | fasst1
Rob, I also appreciate the banter. It is good to have these discussions with end users in a (hopefully) non sales environment. Philips actually started building Pick and Place machines in 1980 for high volume accounts. They started out because th
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 26 13:10:50 EST 2005 | jbrower
Tom, has your company started to convert your BOMS? How is your company doing it? Yes, I think that is on most peoples minds, how to do the BOM conversions is the main worry, and I think that it just boggs some companies down so they dont do anyt
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 27 16:43:15 EST 2005 | russ
Ther is a solder alloy out there that is supposed to allow lead free wave processing without having to upgrade pumps and such or increasing the pot temp (direct drop in). I have not used it nor do I plan on doing leadfree wave soldering but you may
