Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 17 17:17:17 EDT 2006 | rgduval
I'm in the middle of developing an ESD program at my company, trying to adhere to S20.20 as much as possible (and the suggestions of the ESD audit conducted before I got here). I've been discussing the pros/cons of pink-poly foams and black foams.
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 24 09:52:35 EDT 2006 | SWAG
We are having the exact same problem! We do about 6 or so ROHS SMT builds. 5 are fine now but we had problems with most initially and 1 is trouble still. All boards are same material, same PCB manufacturer. Initially, when the delam. problem occu
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 20 13:35:52 EST 2006 | cuculi54986@yahoo.com
We evaluated the OM338 from Alpha and it worked great! Looked like crap, though, compared to the other products out there. When I set the boards out in front of the Alpha sales guy to show him the difference in appearance between his boards and the
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 02 11:35:30 EST 2006 | davef
Best dross remover is to not produce dross. Search the fine SMYnet Archives for previous discussions Dross will not increase signicantly * Another story, that lead-free solders will generate a greater volume of dross than conventional materials, is
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 04 13:06:09 EST 2006 | Todd
I work for a small SMT contract manufacturer with a couple SMT lines utilizing both old (IP1, CP3) and newer (CP643, XP242)Fuji machines. We have an issue with an IP1 that has us stumped. One of the device locations has no power. After some basic tro
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 08 02:40:45 EST 2006 | Mike Konrad
Hi 'K', We manufacture both batch and inline defluxing equipment so we have no axe to grind with either technology. There are pros and cons associated with both technologies under specific conditions. Batch machines are typically good cleaners but
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 19 20:54:52 EST 2006 | Guest
Your experience is quite different than mine. At continues dispensing,I noticed that glue dispense volume increase as the material in the syringe decrease. My machine is using air time pressure pump. This is normal for this kind of pump since ai
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 21 08:34:03 EDT 2007 | rgduval
We have the same problems with cut/tape parts. But, we specialize in short-run prototypes, so I don't have much of a choice but to deal with it, and find a way to make it as easy as possible. We just demo'd a splice tool from Sierra Electronics (ww
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 03 20:30:11 EST 2007 | mrduckmann2000
We too are having issues with our soldering iron tips. We purchased the new Weller WD series irons which we were told would work just fine with lead-free solder. The Weller unit has changed 3 times in the last year(latest unit is the WD2M series).
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 04 17:04:43 EST 2007 | slthomas
99% good solder joints = 10000 ppm (defects per million opportunities). Having only built with 0603s I can't speak for a target but that still seems pretty harsh....with a 75/25 0805/0603 ratio at my last place of employment I think we were running