Reply to: RE>ASY: HOT BAR EQUIPMENT Mike: There is (was) a company in Southern California that has a hot-bar reflow system specifically for PCMCIA cards. Presumably, Intel and IBM are using several of them in their production of flash RAM cards. The system requires the operator to manually feed the board into a vertical slot. Then the system grabs the board, pushes it downward into the connector, solders it and allows the operator to remove the finished assembly. It will also solder the connector on the other end of the board (i.e. for a MODEM card with an RJ-11 phone plug attachment). Unfortunately, I don't remember the name of the manufacturer. Thruput rate was ~2 boards per minute with a reported 99+% solder joint quality . Maybe of the "Techies" can fill in the blanks. Bill Fabry Truevision, Inc. -------------------------------------- Date: 6/7/96 10:00 AM To: Bill Fabry From: Yuen, Mike Greeting to all! We are currently evaluating hot bar equipment for mult-pin Surface Mount connector (PCMCIA type). I am interested in inputs on application, potential vendors, equipment capabilities, and other specifications required to consider for Hot Bar soldering (speed, accuracy, thermal profile, etc.). Thanks in advance for any suggestions q : - ) Michael Yuen Electronic Assembly Corp. Phone: 414 - 751- 5515 Fax: 414 - 751- 5351 ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ Received: by rainbow.truevision.com with SMTP;7 Jun 1996 09:44:59 -0800 Received: from ipc.org by simon.ipc.org via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI) id LAA00953; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:31:07 -0700 Resent-Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:31:07 -0700 Received: by ipc.org (Smail3.1.28.1 #2) id m0uS4Jy-0000DAC; Fri, 7 Jun 96 11:23 CDT Resent-Sender: [log in to unmask] Old-Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> From: "Yuen, Mike" <[log in to unmask]> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: ASY: HOT BAR EQUIPMENT Date: Fri, 07 Jun 96 11:29:00 CDT Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Encoding: 16 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Resent-Message-ID: <"AWMRS3.0.euH._T5kn"@ipc> Resent-From: [log in to unmask] X-Mailing-List: <[log in to unmask]> archive/latest/4613 X-Loop: [log in to unmask] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [log in to unmask]