Electronics Forum | Thu May 06 19:21:24 EDT 2021 | markhoch
Verify your aperture reductions in the stencil. Are the solderballs always in the same location? Same size & shape? Is the solder leaching through plated thermal holes from the opposite side of the PCB? Are you using stencil apertures designed to min
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 29 14:49:38 EST 2006 | MS
Any recommendation to reduce solder beads next to 0402, 0603 and 0805 caps and res? What about home plate vs. bow tie stencil aperture design?
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 12 20:50:37 EDT 2001 | davef
One possible reason no one brought-up "too much paste" is that suggestion has been proffered so many times that it�s in the archives like the layers of sediment making-up Kataden. Another thing [we can argue about this], using home plate apertures w
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 05 20:48:50 EDT 1998 | Ron Costa
I'm currently running a double sided paste smt board loaded with 0603's, on the secondary side. Many of the 0603 devices tombstone during reflow if the parts are not perfectly centered on the pads. Is this caused by the .008 foil thickness? Has anyon
Electronics Forum | Thu May 30 11:37:27 EDT 2002 | Ron Costa
Hi Ray, A couple of things to look into: 1.date code of reel 2. what is the termination made up of tin/lead or tin/lead/palladium. Check with part manufacturer. 3.paste volume/aperture openings 4.PCB plating 5.solder paste formulation Good luck R
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 04 09:20:55 EDT 1999 | HST-SE
Al, We make stencils, and I was personally involved at AMTX when the electroformed process was developed. Some of this will sound like an ad, but everyone has been volunteering vendors and so look at this as a suggestion. Electroforming is an addit
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 14 14:27:00 EDT 2017 | emeto
Here is some food for thought. Try to answer these questions yourself and I am sure you will see huge improvement. Reasons: - Bad PCB design - Plating-uneven HASL cause more than OSP Au/Ni or Silver - Poor paste and print quality - uneven paste ca
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 29 08:24:55 EDT 2009 | davef
Commonly when we see solder balling, we think "too much paste." As a result, we pinch the apertures or change the shape to a "home plate." We don't think that's what's going on here. But what if this component has a thicker solder plating on its ter
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 19 09:16:24 EDT 2016 | markhoch
Hi Shriram, Are you saying that there is a trace running between the pads for this 0603 capacitor? If so, this design may be causing a gasketing issue between the stencil and the PCB. The uneven height prevents the stencil from sitting flat on the PC
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 03 07:40:48 EDT 2002 | Yannick
Hi, WE are making some test with this kind of component and aperture and here what we think. when you use a home plate aperture it's seem that the component is not lenght enought to have a good solder but maybe is our CAD guy that didn't make a
