Re: SMT rework shops near Sacramento or Bay Area?

linnix wrote:
On Jan 5, 1:46 pm, Joerg <notthisjoerg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
linnix wrote:
On Jan 5, 12:56 pm, Joerg <notthisjoerg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Many of us design folks don't have all the fine pitch gear to lift a
super-dense quad pack and solder on a new one. Same goes for some of my
clients, mostly the start-ups. So, are there any service providers that
can do these jobs on a prototype board or two? The usual fabs often
don't like such small jobs although some would reluctantly do it for a
good customer.
Sacramento would be great, or Bay Area if it has to be. There's always
Fedex, so in a pinch even father locations could work.
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Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
We usually ask the prototype shop to make the PCB and mount the chips
(0.5mm) and ship them together. If you let them make the board, they
will mount the chip for a bit less than a cup of coffee. Global
courier is usually 3 days, sometimes faster than local Fed-Ex.
Same here and they usually accommodate us. But sometimes it's for boards
they did not assemble and it typically involves removal of a busted
chip.

We do have the equipments here (San Diego) to rework SMT, but it's
easy to damage the board. Sometimes, it's cheaper to move all the
good parts to a new board. We have regular global courier shipments
both way, so it's cheaper for us to ship them back to the factory.

It takes me a couple of hours to do a board (64 pins 0.5mm pitch) and
only a cup of coffee for the factory to do it.


True. However, often I have only one board from a client. At larger clients it's no problem. The techs have nice Metcal unsolder/solder equipment and they can swap a big TQFP and such in minutes. That's the kind of service I am looking for.

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Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/
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