Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 11 20:35:22 EDT 2002 | davef
Messy. Messy. Messy. Consider gluing these components, until you control your process. It is unclear to us that a single factor drives these defects, but multiple factors that need to be tuned to work well together. PAD DIMENSIONS * Some SM-782 pa
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 30 07:49:38 EDT 2002 | johnw
shawn, define what you mean by solder ball's scattered across the board? I'd tend to agree with the thoughts of too much paste on chip's but normally your ball's would be mainly around these devices although som can move around depending on the surf
Electronics Forum | Fri May 03 06:03:26 EDT 2002 | geoff_goring
Dave Many thanks for your very informative piece on SMT.com As we stand we have not yet 'seen' any problem. My issue is that we have ordered (LTB) a very large quantity of ASICS and our usage has taken a down-turn. We therefore need to keep the one
Electronics Forum | Wed May 22 21:01:49 EDT 2002 | davef
Ah, the customer is always correct, again. And you are officially �painted into a corner�. Actually, your customer is not correct. Thinking that money is going to be saved by specifying copper component terminations [or whatever in the world they
Electronics Forum | Wed May 22 16:36:13 EDT 2002 | slthomas
What methods do you guys use for maintaining lot and/or board traceability? When I worked in med. products, we used travelers that we recorded everything on, then serialized them at the end of the build. Not as effective as up front serialization,
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 14 09:15:02 EDT 2002 | edahi
DaveF, Yeah you got that right...because the initial stages of the project, the products would only attach 1 passive (capacitor) hell when things got too cheesy they wanted to attach 20 caps or so....this is not like board assembly, this only 1 Flip
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 01 20:45:38 EDT 2002 | davef
Solder mask thickness specifications by fabricators are: * Wet mask: 0.0002 ~ 0.0004� on trace * LPI mask: 0.0002 ~ 0.0008� on trace Liquids usually range between 10 to 13 um (0.00039 to 0.00051") when dried. Liquid resist processes I have seen are
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 02 12:01:40 EDT 2002 | johnw
interesting, not at all what we were told so yes lot's of contradictions comming from them, I have to say personally I've not beein impressed with there technical service of late, are they getting complacent I ask? it's strange they say it'll cause
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 11 07:37:11 EDT 2002 | mk
Whoaaaa Genny, Its not that bad!!! The difficulty factor is in assembling your own boards is all releative to how many, and how difficult they are. Most studies show that the vast majority of defects in smd assembly are generated in the application
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 24 11:10:07 EDT 2002 | Gregg Temkin
I�d appreciate assistance in trying to resolve a placement/soldering problem. My company has designed a board which uses a large number of 0402 LED�s that are .028� high. The LED�s need to be soldered so that they point straight up and are not til
