Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 11 13:08:29 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| Folk's, | | I'm just tying up some loose end's on my Master's Thesis on solderballing @ wave soldering and the effect the topography of the mask / PCB has on it. | I was wanting to do a straw poll on you guy's as to the type of resist's you are us
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 02 17:45:46 EST 1998 | ChrisK
In my experience, solder balls are normally caused by only a few things. In order of likelyhood: 1) Water based fluxes (VOC-Free)not having the water carrier completely dried from the board before going into the solder. I.E, too fast conveyor spee
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 14 19:47:16 EDT 2004 | davef
use something other than HASL. "The rest of the world seems to be processing with no problems..." [Hello!!! Earth to Carol. This is a test.] Things you are considering could be more trouble than they�re worth. "1) Reduce via hole size" [If you re
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 18 04:04:43 EST 2019 | ramesh_10377
hi initially, as per PCB design and gerber file of PCB we got 5 mil stencil, during process observed lot of solder balls (70-80%), then we decided to go for 4 mil stencil with c-cut. now the problem is reduced and still solderball exists which is a
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 01 16:58:03 EST 2000 | Dave F
Robert: On your balls: Solder suppliers make several "standard balls" and can advise you. On your cleaner: Recycling water / direct to drain? Most batch cleaner suppliers can advise you on recycling and filtering systems to keep you out of troub
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 01 16:58:03 EST 2000 | Dave F
Robert: On your balls: Solder suppliers make several "standard balls" and can advise you. On your cleaner: Recycling water / direct to drain? Most batch cleaner suppliers can advise you on recycling and filtering systems to keep you out of troub
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 27 11:22:03 EDT 2002 | robbied
Hi there. We have had an out of control reflow oven that has allowed its temperature to fluctuate by up to +/- 20 deg C from set point in very short periods of time. We found the root cause of the problem and fixed it, but by then we had already run
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 11 17:09:27 EST 2000 | Michael Parker
Get a profiler for your oven. To say "we are not sure" and "we think it might..." shows you are running with a WAG (Wild Ass Guess). Not a good place to be if you intend to produce anything reliable, with quality. Run your profile and verify that yo
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 18 11:20:21 EDT 2001 | davef
Ooooo, you do have the toys, baybeee!!!! This really is not a good situation. * Leaving this OA flux res on your boards will surely affect the LT performance of your product. * That a rookie found this by noticing solder balls all over the seconda
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 06 15:43:33 EDT 2006 | Mario Scalzo, SMT CPE
What I usually do is keep the peak temperature about 5-10 deg C below the peak temperature of my lowest rated component, then set everything else up around that. Worse case scenario is to just extend the time above liquidus (TAL) in 5 second increme
