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===== What to look for when buying a pick and place ===== | ===== What to look for when buying a pick and place ===== | ||
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+ | * Price - whats your budget? You can spend as little as $10k for a 'non-automatic' placer - up to hundreds of thousands | ||
+ | * Space - how big of a machine can you get? We have very little space and a floor that can't support hundreds of pounds. | ||
+ | * Power - We don't have 220V so that limits what we can get | ||
+ | * Software - can you use it? try to get a view of the software manual | ||
+ | * Top Vision - Top/training vision is great for quick debugging and fiducial recognition | ||
+ | * Bottom Vision - for placing fine pitch and leadless parts | ||
+ | * Non-mechanical centering - Mechanical centering uses little tweezers to center parts. Personally we prefer non-mechanical centering - less to break and can be much faster | ||
+ | * Feeders - in all sizes, tubes, trays must be OK. | ||
+ | * Cut tape feeders - This may be an option for you if you are making very small run parts | ||
+ | * Speed - how many parts can you place in a minute? For some this may be important! | ||
+ | * PCB size - how small/big can the parts be? | ||
+ | * Accuracy - Can it cope with 0201s? Fine pitch chips? | ||
===== Buying new vs. used ===== | ===== Buying new vs. used ===== |