BGA Rework/Prototype Placement Anyone?

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James Morrison

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Hello,

Does anyone else find themselves in the position I often find myself in:
It is a royal pain to get prototype quantities populated with BGA
components. If an assembly house has BGA machinery they are typically
too big to care about the little guy like me who doesn't need all that
many boards assembled but is willing to pay for the service for a few
boards.

For the first few boards I often like to populate in blocks and do tests
at each stage so if there is a problem it is much easier to isolate the
problem. If you populate the whole board and then find a problem (if
you can) fixing it often means removing components that you've already
populated.

It would also be very expensive to populate a small run using an
SMT-line and then find out that the power supply is going to blow up
parts (especially a worry if you have a boost power supply).

Does anyone know of anywhere that will take a few boards and populate a
few BGA's by hand? In Canada? In southern Onatrio?

If there is nothing out there, is anyone interested in this type of
service. I need this service so I was considering purchasing a rework
station and then making the service available for a fee to pay for the
station and to provide a service to the design world. Would anyone use
this?

Thanks for your input,

James.
 
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:44:37 -0400, James Morrison
<spam1@stratforddigital.ca> wrote:

Hello,

Does anyone else find themselves in the position I often find myself in:
It is a royal pain to get prototype quantities populated with BGA
components. If an assembly house has BGA machinery they are typically
too big to care about the little guy like me who doesn't need all that
many boards assembled but is willing to pay for the service for a few
boards.

For the first few boards I often like to populate in blocks and do tests
at each stage so if there is a problem it is much easier to isolate the
problem. If you populate the whole board and then find a problem (if
you can) fixing it often means removing components that you've already
populated.

It would also be very expensive to populate a small run using an
SMT-line and then find out that the power supply is going to blow up
parts (especially a worry if you have a boost power supply).

Does anyone know of anywhere that will take a few boards and populate a
few BGA's by hand? In Canada? In southern Onatrio?

If there is nothing out there, is anyone interested in this type of
service. I need this service so I was considering purchasing a rework
station and then making the service available for a fee to pay for the
station and to provide a service to the design world. Would anyone use
this?

Thanks for your input,

James.
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Not exactly Canada,

http://www.solnix.com/services.htm

but they do excellent work. They added/reworked BGAs on some of our
boards, before we worked up the courage to do it ourselves. Ask for
Francisco Sanchez.

John
 
James Morrison wrote:

Hello,

Does anyone else find themselves in the position I often find myself in:
It is a royal pain to get prototype quantities populated with BGA
components. If an assembly house has BGA machinery they are typically
too big to care about the little guy like me who doesn't need all that
many boards assembled but is willing to pay for the service for a few
boards.

For the first few boards I often like to populate in blocks and do tests
at each stage so if there is a problem it is much easier to isolate the
problem. If you populate the whole board and then find a problem (if
you can) fixing it often means removing components that you've already
populated.

It would also be very expensive to populate a small run using an
SMT-line and then find out that the power supply is going to blow up
parts (especially a worry if you have a boost power supply).

Does anyone know of anywhere that will take a few boards and populate a
few BGA's by hand? In Canada? In southern Onatrio?

If there is nothing out there, is anyone interested in this type of
service. I need this service so I was considering purchasing a rework
station and then making the service available for a fee to pay for the
station and to provide a service to the design world. Would anyone use
this?

Thanks for your input,
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I did recently setup an apparatus :

http://www.ibrtses.com/projects/vapourphasesoldering.html

I didn't test it with a real board yet, but am confident
that it works as it does in the commercial places.

Rene
--
Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar - http://www.ibrtses.com
& commercial newsgroups - http://www.talkto.net
 
Un bel giorno Rene Tschaggelar digitň:

http://www.ibrtses.com/projects/vapourphasesoldering.html

I didn't test it with a real board yet, but am confident
that it works as it does in the commercial places.
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Very cool! Please, keep us informed on the progresses you will make.

--
asd
 
Hi,

I don't know in Canada... but these guys in China might be helpful:
www.ezpcb.com

Regards,

--
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Jaime Andrés Aranguren Cardona
jaac@sanjaac.com
SanJaaC Electronics
Soluciones en DSP
www.sanjaac.com


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Hello,

Does anyone else find themselves in the position I often find myself in:
It is a royal pain to get prototype quantities populated with BGA
components. If an assembly house has BGA machinery they are typically
too big to care about the little guy like me who doesn't need all that
many boards assembled but is willing to pay for the service for a few
boards.

For the first few boards I often like to populate in blocks and do tests
at each stage so if there is a problem it is much easier to isolate the
problem. If you populate the whole board and then find a problem (if
you can) fixing it often means removing components that you've already
populated.

It would also be very expensive to populate a small run using an
SMT-line and then find out that the power supply is going to blow up
parts (especially a worry if you have a boost power supply).

Does anyone know of anywhere that will take a few boards and populate a
few BGA's by hand? In Canada? In southern Onatrio?

If there is nothing out there, is anyone interested in this type of
service. I need this service so I was considering purchasing a rework
station and then making the service available for a fee to pay for the
station and to provide a service to the design world. Would anyone use
this?

Thanks for your input,

James.
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