Bed of nails type testers generally test ONLY passive components, not active. Opens + Shorts and resistance. JeffG Don Walker wrote: > Hey Technetters, > My company is beginning to look into the benefits to be had by > having our > assemblies tested at the assembly house. My question is, "what should > my > questions be?" Our volume is pretty modest; our largest volume > assemblies > are in the area of a few thousand a year and that is distributed over > several different orders. We probably have somewhere near 300 > different > active assemblies. We go through a quoting cycle for each new > purchase so > there is always the potential that we may bounce around several > different > assembly houses. > Obviously, I want to make our requirements as generic as > possible. Is > there an IPC (or other) spec for this? What kind of tests are > typically > done? Simple connectivity? Partial/full functionality? If the > latter, > then what are the requirements needed for setup? I understand the > preference for all nets to be access able from the back of the board. > What > are the preferred and possible placement grids for the test points? > Any help you could give would be appreciated. I am ignorant > -- please > educate me. Any vendor sales pitches can email me directly -- please, > no > phone calls. > > Thanks in advance, > Don Walker > [log in to unmask] > > ############################################################## > TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV > 1.8c > ############################################################## > To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with > following text in the body: > To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> > To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET > ############################################################## > Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for > additional information. > For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or > 847-509-9700 ext.311 > ############################################################## ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.311 ##############################################################