Electronics Forum | Mon May 27 11:57:37 EDT 2002 | arcandspark
One thing you should do is characterize your reflow oven, run profile boards of various densities, say 2 gm/sq.in. to 10 gm/sq.in. Adjust the oven settings for these various boards to acheive your standard profile based on your solder paste manufactu
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 06 11:42:24 EDT 2002 | Brad Jakeway
What you are seeing on your gold fingers is referred to as flux spattering. This is a very commond problem with gold fingers if you have a zero flux spattering criteria for quality control. The key to eliminating this problem is in the reflow profi
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 22 13:16:35 EDT 2002 | Claude_Couture
We are drifting deeper into market philosophy... Yes, capitalism is the motor to a healty market economy. "Running to catch up on the latest gadgets even if my 10 year old cell phone is still working fine and fills all my needs" cannot be sustained.
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 13 11:50:03 EDT 2002 | dougt
What is happening is your bench supply is unable to supply enough current so the voltage drops. When you turn up the volume knob your asking for more current and the voltage drops more (the led's in the faceplate dim). It also sounds like when you
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 27 14:16:46 EST 2003 | russ
i have done this thousands of times. You are correct about no preheat, however it never seemed to be any issue for us. You do have to make sure that you do not expose any SMT comps. to the solder or they will become heat stressed/fractured. Connec
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 07 17:13:59 EST 2003 | Stephen
I don't think it's possible for a turret machine, but I seem to remember some sales guy talking about a camera on his machine that did look at the part before it picked it up. As far as bulk feeding goes, how would you ensure the resistors are right
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 28 12:02:15 EST 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi You are right. I guess some of us missed this point in the way this on line dialog works. I like to put the specification that the PCB supplier must adhere to, on the Physical Print. The Physical print is often used by outgoing and incoming insp
Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 08 02:43:16 EST 2003 | Frank
We are trying to implement AOI into the mix. One PE wants it Pre-Reflow, to catch and fix the PnP screw ups and the other PE wants it Post-Reflow, because the oven will fix quite a bit of placement offsets and mainly to catch any problems that the R
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 14 09:23:52 EST 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hire a Consultant to look at everything (Again lots to be looked at and worked... (Starting right at Board Design 2>Buy or borrow some of the Books on SMT and read about all the potential contributors. Yes Uneven or Goofed Up Oven Reflow as noted
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 09 15:05:45 EDT 2003 | russ
Probably of no help but here it is anyway This is a tuff one. Attrition is due to many factors. You have machine rejects (visual fail, no pick), feeder set-up loss each time a reel is removed you lose X number of parts depending on feeder design (w