Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 12 12:35:14 EST 2006 | slthomas
Phil's a cool guy. I had a few email exchanges with him when I registered for his site a few years ago. I told him up front that my company at the time wasn't planning on spending any money for services and that I was only digging for information.
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 14 09:30:42 EST 2006 | cyber_wolf
Pardon me for being so bold, but I still cannot understand to this day why solder paste thawing is an issue. I am not sure what types of paste you all are using but it has been my experience that the only thing you gain by refrigerating is 3 months
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 03 03:35:16 EDT 2006 | mika
Yes we do have a problem with this. We have by now investigate numerous lead/RoHS PCBA:s The RoHS boards are by far the most difficult one's to probe and test. Our people at the "test area" including Flying Probe and ICT they spend a lot of time to t
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 12 19:33:12 EDT 2006 | grantp
Hi, Thanks, and we are doing that today. After spending the day playing with all the usual things that used to work, we are focusing today on profiling and data to get things right. The only worry I have is did we get a wave that can handle this, a
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 31 15:45:17 EST 2006 | dman97
Does any one know where to buy spare parts for an MPM UP1500, other than from Speedline themselves? I need to buy replacement foil clamps for my machine, but MPM wants $393 each! It is just a piece of foil, a sharp one at that. I ain't going to spend
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 30 12:23:31 EST 2006 | John S.
Lou, There's nothing like working with it yourself. We went through this exercise several months ago. We evaluated MIRTec, YESTech, and MVP. We were looking at benchtop units, so all 3 companies were willing to send in a "demo" unit for 3 weeks.
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 05 15:10:15 EST 2007 | Bob R.
How about, "Who is the person who'll be called in to spend the weekend getting the machine back up and running after a crash? If it's your home phone number on the maintenance supervisor's speed dial then it's in your best interest to have a back up
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 23 17:32:53 EST 2007 | russ
if you cannot spend any money I would say that you either need to add rails or try to increase the squeegee pressure to hold down the stencil while it prints those close pads. But...... Can you put PCB onto some type of carrier that would move thes
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 21 16:20:11 EST 2007 | jmelson
I would appreciate any pointers to smaller machines that are newer and more flexible (vision, mostly). I am a one-man manufacturer, and have been doing all boards by hand so far. So, my budget on this is pretty small, but I understand that getting
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 08 22:35:13 EST 2007 | davef
Suggestions are: * Procure solderable finishes that have sufficient thickness to avoid intermetallic problems and use storage conditions that do not promote oxide growth problems. * Bagging/sealing boards has been shown to extend storage durations i
