Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 25 05:23:46 EDT 2000 | Wolfgang Busko
Hi Murad, like with many other questions it�s hard to judge without seeing the effect. Assuming that this site you�re talking about is well equiped with knowledge and that they handle their processes normally to everybody�s satisfaction it�s obvious
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 13 04:01:02 EDT 2000 | JohnW
Dave, Firstly..how the heck are you?..been a while.... Ok so I'm running an Electrovert Electra witha hot gas knife, & I've got large server boards going over the wave. I've seen us loose chip, mainly Tants on the hot gas knife...ain't good especia
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 14 08:08:56 EDT 2000 | Wolfgang Busko
Hi ji tae, we had a similar problem with QFPs 0,5 pitch processed by one subcontractor. The symptoms we noticed were: - the solderjointshape and wetting looked normal - the surface had a dull gray appearance - by pushing a lead sideways with a tweez
Electronics Forum | Sun May 21 05:54:04 EDT 2000 | Sal
Currently manufacturing double-sided PCMCIA cards with a nickel/gold finish, which are 0.0235thou in thickness, using surface mount carriers. Problem we are seeing is when building the densely populated side on the second pass we are seeing lifting o
Electronics Forum | Tue May 02 12:17:22 EDT 2000 | C.K.
Donnie is correct. "NO-Clean" doesn't translate to "no-residue!"..... who's giving you hassle about this - your ICT guys??!! Residue remaining on your PCB substrate is a function of many different things - flux deposition, solder mask (glossy means
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 22 10:29:15 EST 2000 | C.K.
Larry: I've got extensive experience with solder skips on both 0603 and SOT23 devices. We also installed an "Omega" vibrating wave on our machine, but it didn't really have an impact on solder skips. The major difference that the omega makes is in
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 31 20:10:03 EST 2001 | davef
I�ve seen this chatter about "fully compatible with families of alloys" in the trade journals and never really thought about it, until you posted. [You know, stay focused, don�t get distracted by what�s going on out there, and all that stuff.] Then
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 14 18:17:40 EST 2001 | mparker
Some thing to watch out for is the cure spec for the adhesive. Will that match with your solder paste reflow spec? You will have two dissimiliar materials going through endothermic reactions at the same time. You could end up with under cured adhesiv
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 23 14:13:20 EST 2001 | mnaddra
RW, I have Screened Adhesive on to several different assemblies and have found that when it is possible I get a much better result than with a dot deposition process (The green strength was greatly improved), the biggest issue I ran in to was the pr
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 17 09:38:04 EDT 2001 | CAL
With some help from our good Friends at Agilent Technologies our RF Lab includes testing up to 100GHz. Equipment includes Vector network analyzer, signal analyzer, dual channel power meter, noise filter meter, advanced impedance analyzer (including