GSM hypodermic vs. multiport nozzles

Multiport nozzles will work better if your pickup is not perfect. Has been a while but are the nozzles 08MPF? I used to pick 0402 chips with 08MPF nozzles. These had 5 holes and were black Delrin plastic. I looked at the 0402 using front lighting. The advantage was that nozzle was oversized to the part. This made pickup out of the feeders less critical. The nozzle could pickup the part with only 2 of the 5 ports. The bad part was that sometimes the vision would see the nozzle. The other problem is that the oversized nozzle can bump into adjacent prior placed parts.

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