You are gonna love stencil printing. The pcb house I use makes the stencils too for about $120/
From: Forrest Christian (List Account) Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2017 11:47 PM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] It's heeeeere.... well amost. I believe we're into the days category at this point. The control boards were giving us severe issues with manufacturing. Yields were below 50% even after rework, which makes the 50% "good" ones suspect also (a normal yield is over 99% before rework). So I decided to scrap the first relatively small batch. I made some board corrections to fix some DFM issues and ordered all of the stuff we needed to switch from dot printing to stencil printing for the solder paste. This should hopefully fix the issues. I sent this out before the holiday. I just got back in after taking a few days off over the holiday and the revised boards and new stencils were here waiting for me. Visual inspection looks fine. Hopefully all will go well and we'll be shipping in the next week or so. That is, as soon as the production staff gets back from their vacation. I like Chuck's description about software being like kids. This particular product seems to be like the kid who fights you every step of the way during their early years, yet somehow turns out to be the kid who is most responsible when they grow up. Hopefully this yield issue is the last of the unexpected problems and we can move into the responsible portion of its life. On Jul 6, 2017 5:16 PM, "Matt" <[email protected]> wrote: Any idea how much longer on these? On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) <[email protected]> wrote: http://store.packetflux.com/packetflux-rackinjector/ -- Forrest Christian CEO, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc. Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 [email protected] | http://www.packetflux.com
