Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 17:40:51 EST 2000 | John Thorup
Hello Chris As John says, a Dremel works well but be careful not to let it grab and get away from you or to let it cut too deep on a multi layer board. If you are using one of the traditional long and pointy Exacto blades I can understand the frust
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 27 21:25:01 EST 2000 | Dave F
Pete: Two angles on your question: 1 Yes, the layout of your board can affect the level of bridging you see. 2 That aside, the set-up of your machine also can affect the level of bridging on your board. Shaw, I could set-up your machine to bridge i
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 10:26:45 EST 2000 | Russ
Sal, Interesting problem, I have found that W.S. pastes tend to have a shorter tack time in real life than what is advertised. Usually the manufacturers specify tack time as after placement let the board sit and then turn it upside down and see if
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 22 17:28:13 EST 2000 | Steve Harshbarger
Donnie, It's funny you ask this question. I just last month was at a company doing exactly what you are asking (Alpha 310 flux with infrared heating). They were successful, but they had 2 important things going for them. 1) A spray fluxer that wa
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
