On the 4-headed one, feeder layout looks rather poor - looks like feeders only on one side so numbers very limited.
Doesn't look like either has auto tool change.
Not obvious if either had a fiucial cam
Not sure I see much value in a small QVGA touchscreen display built in - too fiddly to do anything useful - much better to do it from a PC - maybe a web interface?
Surprised that nobody seems to have thought of using the system used on my 20 year-old versatronics- flying camera, flipping a mirror under the nozzle on it's way from feeder to board - significant placement speed increase with no extra mechanical speed needed.
Thanks Mike,
Not interested in the 4 head version well over my budget. The small version has to heads and you can have a head configured for smaller components and one for larger ones.
The screen is not so important and I'm sure it does not add to cost much. But the fact that it can work independent from an external PC is a big plus for me. I have limited space and energy available.
It has dual cameras one on the bottom for checking component rotation and position and the other one mounted on the side of the head is probably used just for fiducial.
The mirror thing seem like an ingenious way to save time but not sure how it will work. If you flip a mirror under the nozzle the camera will be to far and will see things at an angle also flipping the mirror may not be much faster since this machine is extremely fast and probably the most time is spend for image recognition.
The nozzle is quite close to PCB so the mirror will need to be flipped out somewhere outside the PCB area not sure how exactly that versatronics- flying camera was designed.
Anyway even with bottom camera they can populate a few thousand parts per hour and that is more than sufficient I can not bake PCB's that fast anyway.
I can do a few hundred parts per hour manually so is 10x faster not to mention it will not get bored or tiered
Dacian.