Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 13 19:16:03 EST 2004 | pjc
Dedicated tooling uses what MPM calls an "H" tower. You mount the board support plate (dedicated tooling) on top of the H tower. If boards are only single-sided SMT, meaning only components on one side, the board support plate is flat with vacuum hol
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 23 13:10:10 EST 2007 | jax
This is something a DFM should catch. Best Option: Add Break-Away rails to the board. Worst Option: Buy a true on-contact printer... (normally referred to as the Y-Snugger option)
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 24 13:23:37 EDT 2006 | pjc
Use the photo sensor to stop boards instead of the hard-stop. There is also an ultrasonic sensor upgrade. A little more robust than optical. Y Snugger Tooling upgrade is kind of pricey and they like to do that in the plant. But, I've known that upgr
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 20 16:27:15 EST 2002 | pjc
FYI: MPM does in fact offer alternate board support tooling than the vacuum box system. They have the X and Y snugger tooling, which clamps the board and uses magnetic support pins. If you are looking at a used UP2000, check to see what tooling it ha
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 06 08:33:40 EST 2007 | cardinal
You can get a topside edge-clamping system to fit your AP HI E printer from Gridlok. They make a universal tooling system and topside edgeclamping system for the AP series and UP 2000 series printers. The Y snugger tooling option when ordered with t
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 01 12:48:49 EDT 2004 | pjc
AP25 can handle warped boards to a degree. I also depends on the board clamping system on the machine. There are three avbl. First is Universal Vacuum box, second is dedicated tooling with vacuum and third is Y Snugger tooling that does not use vacuu
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 04 10:43:48 EDT 2009 | kpm135
Thanks for the suggestions! It ended up being that a wire on the amplifier card in the lower drawer came loose and was making intermittent contact. Tightened all the wires down and the problem has gone away. Now we have a new problem. We had to repla
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 30 05:10:28 EDT 2015 | aemery
SWAG does make a good point. The tool he is talking about is located on setup page 1 in the vision box and is labeled FP Mode (Fine Pitch) mode. BY default the setting is "0" this means that once the machine is put into auto mode the camera or visio
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 30 06:22:23 EDT 2015 | mervin
MPMENG, Thank you so much for taking the time to help. The machine has Y snuggers and flippers. The Pcb is loading in the center all the time. The driver cards look fine there is no obvious faults on them or partially burned. The machine was not in
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 24 09:43:47 EDT 2006 | printerman
What you describe is the X snuggers fitted into the workholder which do need either a flat board or good vacuum to work. There are several solutions. One solution you can try yourself is to use Vacuum cups, ( bellows type) designed into the workholde
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