Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 21 08:48:37 EST 2007 | rgduval
Ideally? Never. You risk component break down by re-running the board over the wave machine. In a perfect world, your wave operator would make adjustments after one run, and you'd run another panel over the wave to judge the effectiveness of the a
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 19 13:10:34 EDT 2007 | jerrysaise
Hello First let me state that I work for an AOI vendor. I will not reference any particular brand of AOI. When considering AOI you need to ask your self several questions. These are in no particular order. What is you product mix (IE High mix low
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 21 15:08:48 EDT 2007 | jmelson
I did things using a language I am more familiar with, and it allows me to set up a list of components, feeder locations, pick-up orientations, proper head to use, etc. My problem is I haven't gotten fully reliable communications when downloading th
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 22 00:05:15 EDT 2007 | sarason
Is anyone else using XON/XOFF handshaking, or is it best to >use CTS/RTS hardware handshaking? If you are using >XON/XOFF, what parity settings are you using? (Not unheard >of for the XON/XOFF chars to not obey the parity settings >for data chars.)
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 17 09:19:23 EDT 2007 | actech
This box has the I/O card mounted sideways under it's own cover on the side of the main box. The CPU card is the bottom card. The Two driver cards X/Y and R/Z are side by side and mount to a steel base pannel with there relays at the back. but even i
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 07 11:27:28 EST 2007 | patrickbruneel
Grant, Thanks for sharing that experience with us; this comes to show what damage can be done when politicians make laws based on rumors instead of facts. New laws as drastic as removing lead in soft soldering should have been based on scientific e
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 16 14:13:42 EST 2008 | wayne123
Well I can't tell you what one is the best, But I can tell you what one we have and that I am not happy with, A.P.E is the company it is made by, we have the "chipmaster". They have several units avialable and from what I can tell they are all about
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 17 11:49:54 EST 2008 | wayne123
HI, I have ran into this a time or two, and what I did before we got the BGA rework station was to run some flux under the component, and since the flux that was in the solder on the other solder joints has at least part of the way burned off in the
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 30 17:39:33 EST 2008 | ck_the_flip
Fastek: Wow, I was 7 when the Atari was released. :-) Anywho.... GUILTY AS CHARGED! I have lots of electronics in my house... the big screen LCD HD, Upconvert DVD player, 2 laptops, 2 PC's, etc..etc... If things WERE made in the US of A, we'd pr
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 12 19:11:37 EST 2008 | larryd
Determine what the likly product will be. Then match the capablity of the equipment to the market segment. Functional test is product specific. Several sticking points. Customers like to see an operating factory before placing orders. Big capital
