I received my machine and I must say that it is made really well for this price-point. Not a typical benchtop pick and place quality.
It is also larger than I expected it to be. In the pictures and the video's it looks not that big. But in reality it is hefty and has a good size to it.
The custom milling, wiring, fit and finish are nice. The packaging was top notch (125kg crate) and the kit comes with some spares and maintenance items.
The machine works out of the box without any issues. I have also made video's of the unpacking, first look and some small pnp test run (0603, 0805 , wson 2x3mm ic).
Shipping crate (note i had to remove two of the bottom wooden "legs" so it would fit trough the door):
Open the crate at the side, good packaging, machine goes nowhere, a lot of dense foam panels for protection:
Got the machine out of the box, the x,y,z axis is zip tied and protected with foam so it does not bash around during shipping:
Back side; wiring and general construction is really good:
Inspection report and packing list:
Spares / maintenance kit:
Machine put in final position and added feeders on the machine:
There are some small improvements that can be made here and there in the software. But
nothing that prohibits the usability of the machine. It works out of the box with nothing else
than the basic calibration described in the manual.
It can automatically recognize fiducials (three point calibration) so you just press run and the whole process just works.
If there are any issues that prohibit the placement than the machine will stop and will show a visual indication and make a three second beeping sound
to get the attention of the operator.
It is easy to set up a new job (they have a program for on the pc to do that in english). And really easy
to change feeders or something like that. For smaller packages you might have to re-calibrate the feeder center position (this takes like 30 seconds)
but for 0805 or bigger that is not really the case.
The user interface is straightforward and easy to work with.
It might not be fully visable in the pictures but the machine base is milled aluminium that is brushed to a certain extend.
Really high quality , well the whole construction is. I will take some better close-up pictures later today / tonight.
Monday / tuesday I will assembly one of my boards that has around 100 passives and a few qfn / tqfp / sot23 ic's.
I have full confidence in it and will keep you guys updated. I will upload the youtube video's at another time (unpacking, first start up, first placement).
Edit:
It looks like they intended to make this machine have 28 feeders in the front and the back. But for some reason they have not done that.
Vision for passives, ic's and fiducials works out of the box with no tuning.