Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 07 09:49:10 EST 2006 | George
Hello everybody, I have been asked to establish a way to improve our wave solder process. I wonder where I should start. We collect data by inspecting our PCB's visually. What's the best way to report data? Ocurrence of defects in total among all
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 16 15:19:38 EST 2006 | Samir
Read Ralph Woodgates', "The Handbook of Machine Soldering." Ralph is a true lead-head from way back, and his expertise is Wave Soldering. I know later editions have sections on that new fangled technique, "Reflow Soldering", but Ralph does a very c
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 03 08:00:49 EST 2006 | paulinct
Hi Everyone, I am in the process of selcting a new wave solder machine for our small company. We currently run 2 Technical Devices (18" Nu Era Jr. dual wave). I considered converting one to Lead free. It seems for alittle more we could have a machin
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 14 15:13:35 EST 2006 | Kevin
The Novastar is primarily a low end machine made in India, I think. Technical Devices is more comparable with other dedicated wave soldering machine manufacturers. I recently got a good deal on a new TD machine with a Titanium Pot and Pump. It was
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 19 05:29:30 EDT 2006 | dougs
Good point about the cycle time, we've had a think about this issue, we are set up mainly to do small batch sizes, the reasoning for thinking about laser soldering is that there is no requirements for wave solder tooling, on a batch of 50 boards or s
Electronics Forum | Mon May 15 17:38:11 EDT 2006 | jbrower
Howdy, I have an Electrovert econopak smt II. I'm set to change over in June to SN100C. I won't be changing out anything. I'll just be purging the lead out of the solder pot with a tin bath. I don't expect there to be any problems with our change
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 16 14:54:21 EDT 2006 | jbrower
Howdy Bolo, I see. I currently run a 5 zone 1500 Heller, It's a very nice reflow oven and one of my favorites. Hopefully in July we will be getting in our 1700 from Heller. These reflow ovens (used) can be had for a pretty decent price at least in
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 10 20:59:14 EDT 2006 | davef
Dave Try: * IPC-2221 - Generic Standard On Printed Board Design * IPC-2222 - Sectional Design Standard For Printed Board For Organic Printed Boards Our old [euphemistically] friend Earl Moon has written extensively on DFM. Look at his site: http://
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 17 11:19:46 EDT 2006 | Chunks
Never seen a direct study on these two correlation�s before. But if you have moisture sensitive devices, higher humidity could have some affect on them. If you are talking regular Rs and Cs over wave solder - I kinda doubt it. Water based fluxes d
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 20 12:14:08 EDT 2006 | Rob
Good question - as it is a water based flux then you are going to get a very low level of solvent evaporation, and it's hardly going to be absorbing additional water whilst sitting around. (you actually want the water (carrier element) to evaporate).
