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by Flavor
Sat Apr 23, 2016 1:31 am
Forum: Using the LitePlacer
Topic: Placing ICs (Video)
Replies: 16
Views: 10135

Re: Placing ICs (Video)

That's a good thought. I hadn't considered that it might have some inertia on the spin.

Where would you recommend getting tips? We hear that a M5 threaded Luer adapter would be good. Is there somewhere to get that and a tip that would accept a suction cup attachment?
by Flavor
Fri Apr 22, 2016 10:47 pm
Forum: Using the LitePlacer
Topic: Placing ICs (Video)
Replies: 16
Views: 10135

Placing ICs (Video)

Today we made our first pick 'n' place run on a panelized PCB. I took some video of the results. They weren't real positive. We had to replace most of the ICs. The discreet components seemed to be fine. Take a look at the video, and please let me know if you see anything that can be improved. It sta...
by Flavor
Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:25 pm
Forum: LitePlacer Software
Topic: LitePlacer-rmod Updates
Replies: 159
Views: 179570

Re: LitePlacer-rmod Updates

According to this http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/00000151J.pdf , tapes up to 200mm width exist. I added 32mm tapes to the code base on GitHub. I'm in the middle of a development phase, and there are some issues I'd like to test further; therefore, I didn't do a formal release right...
by Flavor
Thu Mar 31, 2016 4:10 pm
Forum: LitePlacer Software
Topic: LitePlacer-rmod Updates
Replies: 159
Views: 179570

Re: LitePlacer-rmod Updates

> One issue is that our TSOP-40 chips are in a tape, but the tape sizes available are all too skinny. What tape size the part comes in? Link to a data sheet? I took the tape sizes from a standards document and (naively) thought those are all that there are. Adding more is not difficult, I just need...
by Flavor
Wed Mar 30, 2016 10:33 pm
Forum: LitePlacer Software
Topic: LitePlacer-rmod Updates
Replies: 159
Views: 179570

Re: LitePlacer-rmod Updates

I tried to follow this thread, but it's near impossible to tell what the "best" version of the software is. We are trying to place parts on a board (with the latest 26.02.2016 release from http://www.liteplacer.com/downloads/), and it's been fairly inconsistent. We have TSOP-40, QFN-64, TQ...