Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 13 08:32:41 EST 2017 | emeto
From what I have seen, people who really understand the standard, don't inspect boards on a daily basis. Boards are inspected by people, who don't know to fully apply the criteria of the IPC or other standard. The whole thing looks more like a show t
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 03 09:31:35 EDT 2017 | davef
On the flux reside issue that is gumming up your test probe pogos ... Short term, clean what's in process with a aerosol flux cleaner solvent. Ask your flux supplier for recommendations. Longer term, recognizing that there is no fix, your improveme
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 10 14:26:38 EDT 2017 | jdengler
Hi Mark, The status messages for these older UIC machines aren't always as helpful as we would like them to be. What exactly is happening? No air for the whole inserter part of the machine, or the inserter head only? It's been a while since I ha
Electronics Forum | Mon May 15 13:05:31 EDT 2017 | edhare
Pin holes in the gold can allow for corrosion of the underlying nickel and copper to form copper and nickel oxides on the gold surface (example - http://www.semlab.com/blog/?p=564. The corrosion can work itself all the way through the EN layer (exam
Electronics Forum | Mon May 08 10:21:15 EDT 2017 | sumote
I know this may be a long-shot, but I can really use the reach this forum has. I am looking for an injection molding material called Noryl. The specific compound is SE1X-71944. If you have any of this available, or know someone that does, please repl
Electronics Forum | Thu May 18 12:32:57 EDT 2017 | dekhead
Evtimov, I believe you're taking a lot for granted here; "ordered" (to me) would means specs set (by whom?) and PO's placed. Getting it there, putting it together and making it build product is, I think, what Anthony is now tasked with... Is the eq
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 08 16:40:08 EDT 2017 | sumote
I have used one (actually 2) of these machines. The upside is you can point to the print-out and tell your customers that you do test for cleanliness, and you pass. The reality of this test is that it tests for exactly 1 type of contamination. The
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 08 07:56:34 EDT 2017 | jkitt84
In an excellent previous thread davef mentions brass should be plated prior to soldering to prevent zinc leaching from the brass. It is reported once the zinc leaches, the joint is weak. He recommends copper or nickel plating. Would silver plating w
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 13 15:03:54 EDT 2017 | mmjm_1099
For many moons, I have used IPA for our cleaning tanks within out DEK systems. Now we have a new engineering team and he would like to try a stencil cleaning solution (DEK PRO XF). Can everyone tell me there pros and cons of using each of these over
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 20 16:41:12 EDT 2017 | kkrestchmer
We have a Speedline Electrovert Bravo 8 reflow oven. We have issues where we get a "thermal runaway HTSC trip" error and the oven shuts down. We normally can unplug and replug a connector into the Sensor/Relay Watlow AnaFaze TLM-8 module and it sta
