Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 16 13:36:37 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| A potential customer of our is inquiring if we have capability | for Hot Bar manufacturing in the PCBA manufacturing world. If someone can explain to me what this entails, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. | One of the earlier uses for
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 26 09:04:43 EDT 2003 | caldon
We had a "Spring loaded" fixture that pulled the Flex tight and used loads of Board supports. There were pins that went through the Connectors holes and held the flex firm. We only had a few components so it was no problem. Lucky for us because the f
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 25 17:24:44 EDT 2016 | davef
Gold should not be corroding in salt water. I have swum hundreds of miles in salt water with my wedding ring on my finger. My ring is a shiny and corrosion-free as the day it was cast over 120 years ago. It's possible that your gold thickness of 0.0
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 23 01:33:13 EDT 1998 | Pete Sorenson
| I am looking for a way to re-bond a flexible circuit to | a PWB, so that the original circuits are re-connected. | Can anyone help? | I believe I saw some equipment in SMT Magazine 1 or 2 | months ago, but I can not find that advertisement! I rece
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 15 03:56:26 EST 2019 | SMTA-Bob
We covered this in a past webinar on flexible and thin board assembly I presented. The webinar is available from my archive of recordings Its also covered in the Joe Fjelstad's book on flexible circuits which is free online if you do a search. I wr
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 26 03:27:35 EDT 2003 | loz
We currently have a requirement to build flexi circuits and mount two 40 way, 20 thou connectors at each end. The flexi pcb's arrived in singlulated format. Ideally we would like to have the circuits panelised for machine building as hand placing the
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 26 10:03:36 EDT 2003 | swagner
We have been processing a 3 and 5 up flex array for nearly four years on pallets and have had a pretty steep learning curve. Make sure you have vacuum holes in your pallet for the screen printing process, also work with your support block vendor to
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 07 02:08:56 EST 2009 | sachu_70
Hi! Just joined the circuit. Hot Bar soldering is very reliable provided the Flexible Printed Circuit (FPC) and Rigid PCB design support this technique. Some of the critical aspects that need to be considered include Stencil apperture design for sold
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 25 11:53:12 EDT 2016 | shawn_halo_1
Sorry if I was not clear. We have a Flex Circuit Board that is ENIG Finished. There are two connectors that are SMTd to either side of the Flex to connect to other PCBs within the system. Then, we have conductive rubber contacts that are press fit on
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 20 10:57:18 EDT 1998 | Craig Ramsey
Dear Bob, The Tessera microBGA technology defines a family of CSP devices. The most common microBGA type is the TV46 that has been selected by Intel for use with their flash memory devices. A microBGA package in general consists of the silicon die