Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 30 12:14:40 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| | We are wave soldering some fabs with a lot of unmasked trace area along the edges. The trace area is solid copper covered with tin / lead, no masking, no components along the edges, same on solder side and component side (goofy board design). I
Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 20 06:30:49 EDT 1999 | Scott Cook
| Do anyone have any experience on assembling high frequency product, 1.8GHz or 2.4GHz. | | In our production line, we manufacture 1.8GHz product with using no clean paste (RMA type) for reflow and no clean wire for rework. In our functinal test,eit
Electronics Forum | Mon May 24 09:52:06 EDT 1999 | john thorup
| | | Has anyone had any experience or data using vibration during the reflow process. | | | We introduced a vibration device attached to the fixed rail on a Vitronics reflow oven. The reason was to prevent skewing on large PLCC devices. The process
Electronics Forum | Tue May 18 15:36:18 EDT 1999 | Tony
| | | What is the best way to re-ball a BGA? Who has the best system for doing it? | | | | | I'm using our SRT rework stuff to reball in house - when necessary. Of course, we only do this for protos and test boards. We use a standard micro-stencil,
Electronics Forum | Tue May 04 10:38:24 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| Does someone has experience with solder stop on components to avoid an Viking effect (no solder on the pad, all solder on the lead)? What kind of solder stop does work well? What is dangerous? What has to be kept in mind when using such components?
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 29 13:33:13 EDT 1999 | KEVIN SIMPSON
| | | Hi everyone, | | | We started our first machine placed shield test today.We will be machine placing shields with in the next two months. I used a Fuji Qp242 today. There were no problems with pickup etc,. just vision errors. I'm sure we will
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 29 10:02:07 EDT 1999 | Chrys Shea
| Anyone using hot air nife for wave soldering process. | Does it work? | Does it really eliminate solder bridging and does it create any other problems? | | any feed back will be much appriciated. | | Thanks | | Tony A | | Tony, The hot knif
Electronics Forum | Sun Apr 25 11:30:12 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| Hello all, | | Our guys here still have some questions on the "optimized" profile which sees a more moderate ramp up straight to reflow temperatures versus the conventional profile which has a plateau at around 150 Celsius. If the optimized profi
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 21 12:24:42 EDT 1999 | Justin Medernach
| Jeez, | | I just about had a fine Mexico thing going, or was that in my dreams? Probably, but thanks for the future X possibility. | | OK! Let's keep this thing technical. Let us not dwell on the emotionally charged moment of my return. However,
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 12 23:53:24 EDT 1999 | Dean
| Hey guys, | We are opening our new shop in a hotel and would like to hear your inputs. We will be providing contract manufacturing as well as equipment sales from this location. It will be mostly for the surface mount side of our business
