Re: BGA Rework/Prototype Placement Anyone?

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"James Morrison" <spam1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> (This was originally posted on sci.electronics.design and was intended
> to be cross-posted to these groups but that got missed before sending.
> So here it is posted to these groups but not sci.electronics.design--if
> you like please cross-post your reply to that newsgroup. Sorry for the
> inconvenience).
>
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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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