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Tools of the trade / Re: SMT700 New vision based SMT machine from SMALLSMT

April 04, 2014, 02:55:56 am

Why did you design it with only a single head? Wouldn't having 2 heads and the advancing pin on the back of the gantry, like the TM240A, result in a much higher component placement speed?

Tools of the trade / Re: High speed Pick & Place for $3600

February 01, 2013, 02:25:33 pm

[quote author="xinort"]
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@Jelmer
Yes, it came with English menus (albeit with a couple spelling mistakes) and a 110v power supply. Nothing else is in English, manuals, training videos all are in Chinese. But it's all pretty intuitive. The SD card comes with a bunch of stuff on it including a copy of (I believe Chinese) Altium which was surprising. There is a tool for converting the output from protel/altium to the format used by the pnp. I haven't tried using it yet. For me I just output the placement, rotation etc. data from Eagle using a ulp script and then modify it to include the other data that the pnp needs (height of the component, what stack(feeder) the part is at and what head to use. It's all pretty intuitive and hasn't been that hard to figure out even without a manual.
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Thanks for clearing that up xinort!

Also found it on Aliexpress for $5000: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Surface- ... 66304.html

Tools of the trade / Re: High speed Pick & Place for $3600

January 23, 2013, 11:34:16 am

[quote author="xinort"]I went ahead and bought the TM-220A for $3650 plus $307 for shipping via FedEx. It's a ton of cash for my micro business. I have conversed with them quite a bit. They were able to send me the training videos and while in Chinese the videos along with the English screenshots I was able to make sense of it all. Now they are helping me (and me helping them I suppose) to get the centroid data out of Eagle. I just need to format the data properly(comma delimited, x,y,indicator,package and rotation) and they have a tool that does much of the programming from there. I just need to map the feeders to the parts. I don't use BGA currently mostly SOIC some sop and 0805 although I think I'm going to go down to 0603 with future designs. I must say it's a gamble and I'm definitely nervous that I've made a bad decision but I'm comfortable with the purchase. I've been paying people ~$10/hr to hand place parts for many many years. The pnp has always been out of my reach financially. I'll post here and let everyone know how it goes. Hoping for it to arrive by the end of the week.[/quote]

Hey Xinort, does that mean there is a way to set the interface of the machine in English? Or is it the accompanying software for pc that's in English?
Any chance on sharing those training video's? The more people that know how to work with the machine, the more units they'll sell, so I can't see why they would mind ;)

Good luck and keep us updated on the new buy!

Open Bench Logic Sniffer / Re: [Solved] Anybody managed to get the software running on a mac?

May 25, 2010, 07:28:41 pm

[quote author="sdixon"]
Note that the code explicitly opens analyzer.jar to get the gui layout information so if you try to run analyzer.jar from a different directory (by, for example, giving an explicit path to the analyzer.jar file from some other working directory) you will get a "java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file" error. The main window will still open but the capture window will not. Perhaps for some reason, you are having trouble opening analyzer.jar?
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Yup that did the trick! I used the full path of the analyzer.jar file in a terminal window to start the program. Which clearly didn't work. Everything is running smoothly now.

Thanks for the quick reply and keep up the good work!

Open Bench Logic Sniffer / Re: [Solved] Anybody managed to get the software running on a mac?

May 24, 2010, 10:55:39 pm

Ok, after a lot of trying i got the 'original' 0.8 version of the software running but the 2.1 still doesn't work..

I'm running:
OS X:10.6.3
Java version "1.6.0_20"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02-279-10M3065)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 16.3-b01-279, mixed mode)

options I tried so far, all started with java -d32 -jar analyzer.jar $* (also tried moving the 32-bit java version to the top in the java prefs):

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analyzer.jar (0.8) from [url]http://www.sump.org/projects/analyzer/downloads/la-bin-0.8.tar.bz2[/url]

This option works, but the capture window is quite big and not really workable. The UART tool is also not yet included in this version, so I'm trying to make a newer version work:

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analyzer.jar (2.1 test release) from SVN at: [url]http://www.gadgetfactory.net/gf/project/butterflylogic/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2FTestReleases%2F2.01TestRelease.zip&view=log[/url]

This option runs but doesn't open the Capture window.

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analyzer.jar (2.1 test release) from SVN at: [url]http://www.gadgetfactory.net/gf/project/butterflylogic/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2Ftrunk%2FJava_Client_Sump%2Fanalyzer.jar&view=log[/url] (should be the same one as above)

This option runs but doesn't open the Capture window.

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analyzer.jar (CVS_Sep262008) from gadget Factory 'files'-section at [url]http://www.gadgetfactory.net/gf/download/frsrelease/118/300/OB_Logic_Sniffer_CVS_Sep262008.zip[/url]

This option runs but doesn't open the Capture window.

They also all give the missing PgsLookAndFeel errors. (is this package available for OS X? I can't find it anywhere, or find instructions where to install it)

And I'm using the RXTX library from here: http://arduino.googlecode.com/files/arduino-0018.dmg

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong here? Is my problem maybe the recent update of java (1.6.0_20) apple deployed?

Any help is greatly appreciated! I'd really like the latest version to work...

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