I've never used one either, but in my research, it seems that most people get
some speed increase, but more importantly, they get a lot more accuracy
placing smaller parts, over hand/tweezer placement.  I'm not aware of any
person who can hand place 0201's reliably.

However, for the cost of some of these manual/semi-auto PnP machines, a used
automatic PnP machine is far more bang for the buck, if there's any level of
production.  If just doing prototypes/one-offs, this manual/semi-auto type
PnP machine is the way to go.

Cheers,
-Neil.




Mike snyder-2 wrote:
> 
> I have never used such a semi automatic machine, but looking at the
> video it seems this would  be a lot slower than simply manually
> placing the parts.
> 
> If anyone who has used such a machine could comment on the relative
> speed manual vs semi automatic that would be helpful
> 
> Thanks
> Mike
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