On 23 Feb 99 at 17:16, Stephen R. Gregory wrote:
> .. snip snap
> This is one of those PC104 boards that I talked about a month or so
> ago. I'd rather double reflow than mess with glue, but T & T (Trang
> and Tran) will be hand soldering 104-pins on those connectors. If I
> don't wave, they'll be looking at another 100 or so pins to hand
> solder because the board has 2 other right-angle connectors, a
> 16-pin dip IC, and a couple of headers that goes in it.

Hello Stephen,

Perhaps you can avoid wave soldering in mass production with
these reflowable connectors from Samtec. Check out this website:
http://www.samtec.com/np_mwashr.htm (I have no own experiences, but
the principle looks well. Maybe your CAD designer has to do some
black magic with the necessary stencils..... ).

regards
Matthias Mansfeld


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