Hi technet wizzes! We're re-establishing our QC dept and I would need to know what to look for in the solder inspection departement. What kind of microscope should I look for? According to the table in IPC-A-610, I would need 10X mag. equipement, Is that enough? Most of our board are surface mount, be we do have some through hole board done. We have a 6X from Vision Engineering (Mantis) and it is not sufficient (from my point of view) to inspect certain soldered smd chip. Any suggestions??? JF ############################################################## 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. If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5365 ##############################################################