Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 29 16:21:20 EDT 2011 | rjlasko
Greetings...I have a customer that has an assembly that is conformal coated with Humiseal 1A33. This assembly has some components (resistors and FET's) that heated up during operation and has discolored the conformal coating around their location.
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 30 22:39:29 EDT 2011 | comatose
I'm looking at used reflow ovens. I'm homing in on Vitronics. We're pretty self-sufficient in terms of keeping machines going, but does anyone have experience with parts and documentation support for Vitronics? Is there a fee for getting into the sys
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 31 14:32:12 EDT 2011 | cbeneat
We run 3 XPM2's. All were new so under warranty, but I've found the support to be excellent over the years. They have moved their operation to MO recently, time will tell if this is an issue. The only maintenance issue I've run into is on our oldest
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 07 16:44:51 EDT 2011 | SheanDalton
Shenmao also offers liquid fluxes that are "Made in the USA", formulated and shipped from their factory in San Jose, CA. Shenmao's engineers do travel to support process, and, we (as their distributors) work hard to support users too. This link t
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 01 06:41:43 EDT 2011 | kahrpr
We run lead free and leaded on all of our lines. When lead free first came out we went to the extremes to make sure not one atom of lead would get into the process. I remember we were told that the world would end if leaded products were within a hal
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 01 11:45:48 EDT 2011 | emeto
You can bet it was a conspiracy. Customers don't usually chew the PC boards inside their TVs,coffee machines or other electronic equipment. And if Lead is so dangerous why do we still run it and we still have to talk about problems about Lead. An
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 13 12:00:57 EDT 2011 | swag
Flex circuits are assemblies that can be bent or twisted into shapes after assembly (flexible). When heald in panels for SMT assembly, it's difficult to get repeated x/y offsets so you need to consider fiducal placement in your design for placment m
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 08 18:01:22 EDT 2011 | comatose
We had a camera die on one of our GSMs. I got a new camera, and it is working, but I need to either find a cal kit to rent for a day, or else if someone knows a reasonably accurate procedure to calibrate the new camera using the other upward looking
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 21 15:13:08 EDT 2011 | gregcr
Where are you located? Along the same lines, I have a trick I used a couple times when replacing a camera. It is often not the image sensor that goes bad, but the camera electronics behind the sensor. I have had luck taking the camera apart but le
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 12 05:43:53 EDT 2011 | aungthura
Hi All We have run the Hast Burn-in-Board into 2 soldering Process,first-Reflow and second-Wave. After wave soldering, there are many insufficient solder in the via holes.The via holes are wide as 15mil. Then, as customer's request, we have to cover
