Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 19 09:02:10 EDT 2005 | clampron
Good Morning Everyone, We have a customer that produces RF based assemblies. We are building several board types for them, all of which have an "RF" area of the PCB. This RF area does not have any mask to define pads. There are also several issues w
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 28 11:07:41 EST 2006 | Chunks
Gel Flex works for Dek, just a slight modificaion. Works 100% better than any Grid type of system. We had missprints from Grid Lok and Form Flex - about every 5th or 6th board. Until we modified the Gels, we would take the time and some peelable s
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 27 17:08:08 EST 2006 | barryg
we here are setting up our lead free process. Was curious about how others handle these issues. 1) Do you physicaly segregate leaded from non-leaded (different storage areas, shelving) for part storage? 2)Do you have a seperate board washer just for
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 25 16:42:00 EDT 2006 | russ
Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do! We have to perform this on occasion as well. We perform this when we cannot get a board to stay free of tacoing, oilcanning, sagging or warping. (we needed a bigger preheater dimension wise) We have one no
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 27 13:43:42 EST 2007 | wavemasterlarry
Thanks Russ. Everyone knows that when you clean your wave you wear a dust mask. Well that tells ya the lead is flying around. So same goes fr your oven. Hot solder paste turns into the lead. And like a wave it is very hot. Hot stuff vaporizes l
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 06 18:17:49 EDT 2007 | davef
Mika: Based on what we hear you saying, we're not so sure we have a problem with the board layout [1:1 between board and interposer pads, non-solder mask defines pads], but with the flawed execution of the layout. If your board fabricator decides to
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 23 17:49:04 EDT 2007 | davef
We know nothing of DeFelsko, but do understand how they distinguish between the solder mask and the conformal coat. DeFelsko manufactures hand-held, non-destructive coating thickness gages that are ideal for measuring the dry film thickness of confo
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 14 10:01:32 EDT 2007 | gmoritz
I have posted earlier on a UIC Radial inserter machine. We have the machine running after repair of the CnC head. However, I now have a process problem with a board that has 256x3 LED parts (768 LEDs in three colors) where only 50% of the LEDs can b
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 03 10:47:11 EST 2007 | slthomas
I thought you said that the parts that weren't wetting in reflow were the parts with epoxy. The question I have is do they wet in wave solder, and if they do, why does it matter what happens to them in reflow? Conversely, if they don't wet in wave,
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 12 03:37:05 EDT 2008 | benefon
It is also possible to etch the barcodes directly on the PCB by using a laser. The solder resist mask is easily burned by laser and if there is copper underneath the contrast is quite good. The contrast is satisfactory even if there is no metal under
