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Re: Solder under bottomside SMT components

Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 24 23:52:41 EDT 1998 | Phillip Hunter

| Has anyone seen a problem with solder under chip components, in-between the glue and the component or in-between the mask and the component? We seen both. | What could be causing this? This has only been detected on one of our products. All the re

Identifying Palladium Parts

Electronics Forum | Wed May 27 10:15:52 EDT 1998 | Doug Romm

Just wanted to add a few comments on the discussion of how to identify palladium parts. Generally, there is no "clear-cut" way to identify Pd versus Sn/Pb. It mainly comes with experience. Any part that is is plated prior to being trim/formed will

Separate Forum For Unsolicited Sales In The Works

Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 21 16:33:57 EDT 1998 | Cunli Jia @ SMTnet

Should this Forum be used for unsolicited sales? SMTnet has stipulated (in the FAQ page) that the SMT Forum messages are meant to be technical and not to be used for unsolicited advertising. However, we have not enforced this rule since 1, there

Re: Altera PQFP240 Solderability

Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 14 09:38:07 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon

| We are having some difficulty soldering a 240 pin Altera device. We use Alpha WS-609, a very generic profile for that solder paste, and a 6 mil stencil with laser cut apertures (1:1 ratio). This is a 20 mil pitch device (aperture size is 10 mils X

BGA open joint

Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 06 08:38:25 EDT 2004 | Bob R.

You don't mention the board surface finish, but BGA's on NiAu are prone to brittle fracture in the Sn-Ni intermetallic on the board side of the joint. You may not be able to see it visually, but it would show up in a cross-section. In-circuit test

RC Filter

Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 05 09:23:36 EDT 2004 | blnorman

We're using a RC filter network that we're having solderability problems with. There are 4 RC pairs with 2 ground connections (this is a leadless component). The problem we're having is non-wetting of one of the castellations (9 of the 10 scallops

USED EQUIPMENT IN CHINA

Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 04 07:13:42 EDT 2005 | stefwitt

All good advise, guys. I somewhat blame myself, that I didn�t inspect the machine. On the other hand, who knows, what machine I would have seen. Here are some e-mail responses, indicating, that this is not the type of business I�m capable of doing my

smd capacitors- ICT measuring

Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 13 08:32:24 EDT 2013 | rway

Have you verified the measurements on the bench with an LCR meter? Chances are you are experiencing aging with these ceramic caps. We have similar issues with X5R and X7R caps. You will see the effects of aging with returns from the field as well

Fuji CP 642 Communication Cables with Flexa

Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 15 09:42:49 EDT 2019 | mleclair

I purchased some RS232 breakout board connectors so I'm making the cables now based on the pinout document page 4 (DB9 to DB25) but i'm still getting the message below: "unable to transmit to machine 61700025 Unable to log on to the Machine Communic

Help required selecting reflow oven

Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 27 03:03:57 EDT 2019 | SMTA-David

Hi, I have a small assembly line that consists of a Semi-Automatic Stencil machine, a Samsung Pick and Place, a small IR reflow oven and a wave soldering machine. The reflow oven is presenting the biggest bottleneck. The machine is a small IR (T960


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