Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 10 12:27:32 EDT 2007 | hakerem
Hi Dave - You are correct that I was not clear in my comments. I assumed Joris had seen the usual solder balls accompanying his blowholes. Nevertheless, Joris, my first two recommendations still stand. Increasing the dwell time of your leads in t
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 29 00:13:24 EDT 2007 | slthomas
The two factories I've worked at that ran Radial Lead inserter/sequencers were both building their own products and we were able to specify our own panelization guidelines. One-half inch rectangular frame on all boards. Our universal workboard hold
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 19 15:32:03 EST 2007 | slthomas
"Any risks associated with double pass stencil printing?" Mostly just too much paste, plus the associated bridging, and your stencil gets dirty quickly. Any gap between the stencil and the board gets filled with paste on the first pass, then migrate
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 16 14:46:38 EST 2008 | slthomas
We've got an auto fuse clip (a pair of tin/nickle spade type receptacles joined with a nylon bridge piece) giving us fits. The pins on this thing have a right angle profile (symmetrical "L" shape) and make great flux traps. No amount of tweaking pre
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 31 15:13:20 EST 2008 | chef
You will need to develop your reflow profile which includes drilling a hole through the fab and into the ball for accurate temp measure. During profile/process development you will probably want 3D x-ray (consider contracting that out). Once in prod
Electronics Forum | Wed May 14 15:15:03 EDT 2008 | boardhouse
Hi Scott, I have worked for a State side PCB Manufacture and now a Taiwan Manufacture. At both shops the up charge was based on how many up the pallet array was plus layer count and complexity of product, charges ranged from free to 15%. Standa
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 18 15:03:38 EDT 2008 | awegener
I'd like to get more information about pick and place nozzles. How can I learn more? ... What do the nozzles look like? Are there different shapes? Are custom nozzles sometimes used for custom parts or are the nozzles mostly standardized? What kind
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 30 15:36:18 EDT 2008 | grantp
Hi, Sounds like your engineer does not know what he's doing. We have developed and built hundreds of thousands of boards with normal square pads for 0402, and we just use a 5 thou stencil with 5% reduction and it works well. Decoupling? What is tha
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 30 22:29:58 EDT 2008 | davef
For most applications, a nice square [or rectangle] pad works just fine. Assemblers ship boat loads of boards with these every day. It's reasonable for tight decoupling capacitor requirement applications to use round or radiused pads for components
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 11 17:51:22 EDT 2009 | GSx
Thank you so much Dave, by having different lots of PCB received (same Supllier) with suspected and good carbon ink deposit, I found useful to adopt a comparison test among the different lots by usingthe IPC-TM-650 2.4.1 Adhesion , Tape Testing (lik
