Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 19 20:47:35 EST 1999 | Steve Gregory
| Recently, someone in the SMTNET forum had installed a Wells-CTI Z-Lok socket and found that it was one row off from the board layout pads. Was the problem due to a layout error or was the datasheet incorrect? Dave ol' pal...dat wuz me...
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 19 12:03:09 EDT 1998 | Scott Cook
Out of interest, are you using an 84V? 84VZ? a 60V? 60VZ? With SBIP or the Yamaha vision system (VICS 1000)? Do you have the old tray sequencer? > WRONG!!!! Why do folks still live in this mindset? I'm not slamming you personally. But this is preva
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 21 21:27:32 EDT 1998 | smd
| | WRONG!!!! | Why do folks still live in this mindset? I'm not slamming you personally. But this is prevalent in our industry. | More opinion: | Make REWORK a nasty, dirty word. Work for the ROOT cause of a process problem. DO NOT ACCEPT rework a
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 23 20:42:10 EDT 1998 | Steve Gregory
Boy Chrys, aren't you lucky? Too busy to mess with that stuff huh?...must be nice!! Ya' know, it doesn't say much for the design, or the design-er when you see a bunch of wires on board, but if the person who does the jumper wires is good, and take
Electronics Forum | Tue May 26 17:29:42 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| I know, I've read the "been there done that" stories about this subject, but I still profess ignorance on some aspects. | We are using NPO type dialectric caps in potted high voltage assemblies and continue to experience catastrophic vailures. U
Electronics Forum | Sun May 17 13:46:30 EDT 1998 | Steve Gregory
Hi All! I've been reading this conversation which prompted me to break out the IPC-SM-786A from the IPC manuals from our parent company in Maryland sent us (we're just starting up in California). It's the Procedures for Characterizing and Handling of
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 23 23:58:01 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| | Jackie's posting recently and responses to it got me to dondering. First, recollecting, we bought an IR rework station a couple million years ago. It had a IR source on a stand, a bunch of lenses, and Reynolds aluminum foil for shielding near-b
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 28 13:17:46 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| I finaly get a vacation and decide to go to the forum and low and behold it's hot air verses a small ray of sun.I read every thread and still failed to see any real argument either way? I love rework as an assembler. I hate rework as a shop owner.
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 19 13:43:59 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| | OK folks, let's get real serious. | | | | Well, I shot off my big mouth yesterday during a scheduling meeting concerning DFM and rework. Again, what an irony, oxymoron, or that other thing. | | | | Anyway, I said it would take another 4 weeks t
Electronics Forum | Tue May 25 10:56:12 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| | | Can anyone steer me towards a supplier of heatsinks suitable for use on a PQFP 160. Before you shoot me down in flames, I know that I am not going to get much heat away from the die because of the plastic but the application is such that the bo
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