OK, cool! I'd like to see it work. While I have a lot of respect for
design folk, and especially those who design the super easy websites to
use where you find what you need, do it, leave, and your coffee is still
hot, the Mech E's who can visualize in 3D with motion astound me. I
understand the multiple reels of feedstock. It's the "remove the parts
from the tape" part that I find hard, that tape was really sticky. [:-)
Every time I've asked my wife to tell me the colors on a resistor, even
after I tell her, "They're all supposed to be preschool colors," I still
get, "Well, sort of reddish-orange ... might be a little pink too."
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 6/15/2018 4:43 PM, GaryK9GS wrote:
Hi Fred,
It's called a sequencer. Individual reels of tape and reel axial parts are
loaded in the sequencer. So there would be an entire reel of 10k resistors, a
separate reel of 100k, separate reel of diodes, etc.
The sequencer then removes the parts from the tape and creates a new tape with
the parts in the proper order and count. The sequencer my company used to have
would also measure the value of the part and reject it if it wasn't in the
tolerance window.
I hope that all makes sense...
Surface mount is oh so much easier. We have 9 surface mount lines and rarely
use the axial through hole inserter these days.
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