Hi All,

I just sent Steve a photograph that he genereously placed on in his CyberHouse at http://stevezeva.homestead.com/index.html. It's a picture of a Coilcraft coil with a white bottom and goldplated terminations. 
Our designers are planning to use these parts on some of our new products, but unfortunately the placement on our Philips (Assembleon) machines is inaccurate due to the fact that there's not enough contrast for recognition by the vision-system. Both the gold and the white substrate are highly reflective when illuminated on the vision system. 

Our designers see this coil as just another standard part, and they don't want to hear about any such problems.
To my opinion it is ridiculeous that component manufacturers make their parts like this (I mean they could give some surface treatment to their alumina substrates).

I really like to know how other Techies think about this. Is this a standard part that needs an in-house technical solution, or should a Smart Designer try to avoid using such parts ? 

Kind regards,

Daan Terstegge
Unclassified mail
Personal Website: http://www.smtinfo.net 

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