Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 11 13:21:30 EDT 2000 | Deborah Troxell
We use the Slimkic for our oven porfiles and run a very high product mix too. My first question is do you use the same progam for all your boards or do you run different temptures profiles for each module? How are the gold boards getting destroyed? W
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 12 14:03:12 EDT 2000 | MikeF
Jason, First, check with the manufacturer of the flux you are using. They can tell you what board topside temperature range the flux is designed for. Some other info is needed for the residue part. Is it showing up on the same board, or different boa
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 07 12:11:42 EDT 2000 | Rex Breunsbach
First of all I would like to thank you for your candid comments on this subject. ECD listens to its customers and values their input. Yes, our experience shows the coupons have a 30 to 60 run life depending on application. This works out to between
Electronics Forum | Fri May 26 12:24:48 EDT 2000 | Steve Thomas
Greetings! I'm hoping that you can help me with a problem, possible due to my pea brain not being able to figure out how to work the site. When I do a search of the forums and get 250 hits, the only way I can see the last one is to go through the w
Electronics Forum | Fri May 12 04:46:32 EDT 2000 | Wolfgang Busko
There�s obviously still a lot of work to be done to get those "beasts" on the board. I wonder if anybody has solved the problems already and is able to say "we do it and it�s working well under the following conditions". I read the article in the las
Electronics Forum | Wed May 03 20:24:22 EDT 2000 | Dave F
MF: I know of nothing that addresses your question directly. Let me suggest: * Technical types at your solder supplier should be able to help. * "Effect Of Intermetallic Compounds On The Thermal Fatigue Of Surface Mount Solder Joints" PL Tu, et a
Electronics Forum | Tue May 02 12:13:07 EDT 2000 | Sal
Guys, We are currently on the market for an SPC tool for our reflow & wavesoldering equipment. In order to please customers we require a tool to measure the repeatibility of our of both the above mentioned processes and collate this information ( SP
Electronics Forum | Tue May 02 05:35:07 EDT 2000 | Donnie
There are a number of different things to ask youreself here. What type of flux are you using. 330, 351, 310 etc. Do you have a hot air knife? As for the residue, that's gonna show on almost any wave soldered pcb. We have fought the issue for a long
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 27 21:20:38 EDT 2000 | Dean
Here are some pointers to use during your X-ray inspection. Microcracking is virtually impossible to determine with X-ray. However, I suspect you are looking for "hard" opens. Those are much easier to find visually. If using a paste-and-place pro
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 12 20:56:18 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Kevin: You're correct. Loose the glue, unless you're waving second side or have real heavy components. Check the archives for component weights, references, and what not. I believe that most people (let's see a show of hands kids) are using two pa