Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 18 15:37:44 EDT 2010 | remullis
One thing I have run into when placing cap's flush to the board is blow holes due to the plastic sheathing used around the cap. It would form a gasket going through wave and exhaust out of the holes therefore blowing the solder out with it. This cap
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 01 14:34:39 EDT 2010 | claudea2
I purchased a used QUAD 4C -136 and after a few months got the machine running 8 hr shifts. One issue I have come across is feeder drift. I kept re-aligning the feeder pickup positions but they would always change. Finally I got the time to measure
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 19 05:19:31 EDT 2010 | grahamcooper22
I have seen that moisture in pcbs will cause mid chip solder balls. To discount this, take one pcb from a batch that is giving you solder balls and pass it through you reflow oven with no paste or components on (bare pcb)using your normal reflow prof
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 02 10:50:21 EDT 2010 | eezday
I'm bringing a GSM-1 machine at a university back to operational condition. I have a project created and I'm experiencing that when it's loaded the PWC goes to a location that is about two inches too narrow. When the PWC is manually told to go to a
Electronics Forum | Sun Sep 12 17:56:19 EDT 2010 | terrybaker001
Hello to all interested parties, I am a doctoral candidate looking for participants in a survey about supply chain efficiency based on communication. Particularly I am interested in people in the PCBA (Printed Circuit Board assembly) industry in manu
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 17 03:13:00 EDT 2010 | grahamcooper22
In HASL pcb coating you need to fully coat the pads with solder and then blow off any excess solder to leave a nice coating on each pad. Generally pcb manufacturers try to give you a flat pcb pad to make your solder paste printing more consistent. To
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 22 19:34:56 EDT 2010 | hegemon
Thanks for the help guys. Nice to think I was basically on the right path. PCB manufacturer has finally conceded the barrel defects and is remaking the PCBs. We are big on pre-tinning the leads of TH connectors as well as providing some good pre
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 11 13:12:58 EST 2011 | methos1979
Has anyone had any luck programming using the side cameras to inspect for defects on the sides of chip components? We recently had an escape of a damaged chip capacitor that was impossible to see from the top camera but was clearly visible with the
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 13 10:30:40 EST 2011 | bdamico
Hello Scott, Simply program the side angle cameras as you would for any other device using the downward camera. For instance, solder joint inspection for a PLCC would utilize a basis window, bridge inspection algorithm and individual solder joint i
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 13 20:40:47 EST 2011 | eadthem
properties > settings > troubleshooting > Set hardware acceleration to NONE > apply OK apply OK reboot. without this any attempt to take a screen shot of the program will not save the image (because in a fruitless attempt to speed it up they have pr