Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 29 04:14:49 EST 2000 | Marc
Charlie B: You mentioned that you have an air conditioned environment and a RH 0rf 50, baking the boards is predominately done when the history of the PCB delivery and / or previous storage conditions are un known. When I was with a CM, we did this a
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 21 20:36:11 EST 2000 | Dave F
Armin: Boca makes some good points about release. So, let me spin this up from a different angle ... SM-782 suggests "full radius corners" as an alternative to the more familiar square corner pads on PLCC, TSOP and QFP. We see both also. We thin
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 29 22:30:13 EST 2000 | cklau
Hi guys; There are a few points that should be taken in to considerations regarding IPC-SM-782 land pattern and design rules. As a general rule all SMT reflow pattern should be in comply with SM-782 but however for special cases like : * PLCC land
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 20 19:27:14 EST 2000 | Marc Ruggiero
Hello, I am looking for inputs (experiential or opinions) concerning field reliability of high-frequency RF boards that have had a trace or pad repair (or both), any package type. If anyone can comment on this subject, I would appreciate it. We bu
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 20 13:05:23 EST 2000 | aldo r. maldonado
i am getting a lot of dimension variation in some chip parts (like coils). Using Panasonic MVII-F chip shooter, I am inspecting the part with transmissive lighting (back ligth)centering with the square shape of the part. I attempted to trick the mach
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 17 16:39:33 EST 2000 | Larry
We have just installed an omega wave to our W/S machine and are tring to W/S some of our bottom side surface mount components. I am still getting skips on some sot 23's. The component lay out meets all IPC 782 guidelines. I have verified these setti
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 20 18:15:05 EST 2000 | Russ
Larry, SOTs are a wonderful thing to try and wave solder! They are about as nice as Tant caps. I have found that shadowing is usually the biggest problem assuming that the other wave parameters are good, in your case it seems that they are. Couple
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 04:42:28 EST 2000 | cpgoh
HI all, thanks for the advise.. Electrovert is being used from 7am to 7pm and we do dedross from the surface of the solder bath during lunch time around 12nn. Break Time we just sweep them to the side.. Every two week, we do the solder bath maintena
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 23 20:31:45 EST 2000 | davef
Hey Cartman: Recently, I was over at a plant that does ICT on RMA fluxed boards and asked them about flux residue on test probes. The test machine operators: * Think flux residues are a pain in the gluteus maximus. * Change probes (from a collectio
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 16 10:41:34 EST 2000 | Russ
Are we talking midship SMT or wave soldering? SMT - I have found the best method is not having them (WOW) this can be accomplished through pad design, aperture design, placement accuracy, and profiling, It is my understanding however, that these
