Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 23 14:44:08 EST 2009 | sunny
Are boards produced using Vapor phase ovens dirtier than N2 Reflow oven. Are there any studies/papers someone can point to? if not what are the methods to verify this? is IPC specified SIR test using 24B SIR test coupons? please advise. thanks in adv
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 18 10:11:04 EDT 2009 | grantp
Hi, Yes, I think this sounds like a form of tomb-stoning, and we used vapor phase until it ended up driving us totally nuts trying to deal with tomb-stoning. We tried everything, and all kinds of stencil apertures. Vapor phase is an amazing process
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 30 17:48:31 EST 2002 | davef
Expanding on a previous poster's comments ... Vapor Phase Soldering. A solder reflow technology that uses a heated solvent to melt the solder. Buried deep in the recesses of the SMTnet Library is �Terms & Definitions�. We started using vapor phas
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 16 11:36:23 EDT 2004 | soease
Hi everybody, now that lead-free is coming, I'm looking forward to change the oven we own in company I work for. Eternal question: what's the best oven technology on market. I allready know that we won't work with IR ovens, but I would like to have
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 19 16:07:58 EDT 2009 | davef
We don't know dip about vapor phase soldering, but we can't help but wonder how well the leads of the component match with the pads on the board.
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 20 19:07:29 EDT 2009 | smt_guy
reduce the stencil aperture to prevent tombstoning in vapor phase process. from my experience a 6 mil thick must be at least between 20 to 30 % aperture reduction for 0805's and below. cheers!
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 18 03:25:48 EDT 2004 | soease
Hi, cool news! I'll try to cook some as soon as I get some experiment material. Thank you for the test method. Rgds
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 23 17:51:55 EST 2009 | ldavis
Chet, We've found the exact opposite. Boards we process in VP are cleaner than convection. Sorry but I cannot provide any meaningful data to back that up though. We conduct SIR testing internally using our high impedance pcba's.
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 23 17:57:16 EST 2009 | cgodbole
Hi Larry, thanks for quick response. Do you have such observation for No clean paste process also? regards chet
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 18 00:53:16 EDT 2004 | Grant
Hi, I think you cannot go wrong with Convection. If you want to experiment with VP, just get some of the fluid and put it into a pasta cooker on a standard domestic hot plate. Have a basin full of cold water so after reflow you can lift the cooker a
