Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 26 10:15:04 EST 2000 | Christopher Lampron
Maurice, I have worked with several different platforms of P&P machines and have a couple of thoughts regarding features and ease of use. The Contact Systems 3 series machines are versitile and very user friendly. I contribute this to the touch scree
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 20 12:32:40 EST 2000 | Dave F
Hey Dreamguy: On stand-offs: * "Sugar" stand-offs look nice, after washing (if you wash, as Chad said), but we find them kinda fragile. The only people that can install 'em without bustin' more than they install are the "skill people" that we don
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 25 13:15:17 EST 2000 | Michael Allen
Thanks for the input Mike (and others). As you guessed, via-in-pad is not my idea, and I'm resisting it as much as I can. One of our designers used this practice at some other company, says there were no problems, and wants to use it (via-in-pad) a
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 25 21:59:44 EST 2000 | Dave F
Michael: On reliabiliity, consider that: � IPC-SM-782, "Surface Mount Design And Land Pattern Standard" and IPC-D-279, "Design Guidelines for Reliable Surface Mount Technology Printed Board Assemblies" specifically describe via in pads as "poor des
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 28 20:34:24 EST 1999 | Dave F
Hey Justin good to see you. You've been using your Terra box for a while now. Cabinet suppliers are: 1 Nitrogen boxes STANLEY STORAGE SYSTEMS P.O. Box 1151/11 Grammes Rd, Allentown, PA 18105-1151 800-523-9462 fax 610.776.3895 storagesystems@mail.
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 17 09:47:10 EST 1999 | John O'Brien
Chuck: Your best resource is the Symbology Research Center in Huntsville AL. In is a research and development facility run by RVSI Acuity CiMatrix, the folks who invented the Data matrix (DM) 2-D code. This facility is unbiased as to technologies and
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 14 01:05:09 EST 1999 | cklau
Hi All I have a 0.7 mm diameter hole for vias, what�s the minimum annular ring for this hole diameter? Ans: Fur inner layers Min = .006" hole-pad annular ring ; inner pad dia - hole dia/2 For outer layers Min = .005" hole-pad annular ring ; outer p
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 06 03:54:57 EST 1999 | Chris May
Hi Russ, I have a similar situation. I have been told that this can be caused by the nickel, over which the gold is plated, can result in suspect joints, embrittlement etc. Some joints can even be weak and broken without much force on some of my boa
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 06 17:50:39 EST 1999 | Kantesh Doss
Christopher: Thank you for sharing your experience about the DPAK. Yes, out part has a heat sink at the bottom. Our stencil opening was 7 mils (in both X and Y) smaller than the pad size excepting that the stencil opening consisted of a series of zeb
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 16 09:44:18 EST 1999 | - bobar
Ken, The technology you are referring to is also known as return-to-web. This panelization method involves a hard tooled perimeter die and a press equipped with an air cushion. The PCB circuit is punched out and then inserted or "pushed" back into