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PCB Acceptance Standards

Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 03 12:00:55 EDT 2001 | Steve

I am looking for standards that describe acceptance criteria for PCB's. Anyone.....anyone.....Buhler. My company is an OEM manufacturer and I want to know what to look for when we receive PCB's from our PCB fab vendor. Specifically, solderability an

Substrate Au/Ni thickness

Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 20 16:31:49 EST 2001 | davef

Let�s be basic. The two most common causes of BGA opens that we talk about here are: 1 Gold thickness and 2 Black pad. Given the thickness of gold that you talking about, it�s reasonable to consider thickness as the first alternative to investigat

Solder particals in the oven?

Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 04 12:54:00 EDT 2002 | Bob

Hi, We are manufacturing a small PCB with large areas of gold plating. We experience from time to time what appear to be solder splashes on the gold areas. I do not believe the contamination to be from "outgassing" due to the distance from the dep

Re: Alternate surface finishes

Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 18 13:48:37 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon

| We currently use HASL on all of our boards and I would like to move to something else. I have sampled some boards with Entek OSP and I loved it, the problem is we have plated mounting holes on just about every board we make. Does anyone have info

BGA opens

Electronics Forum | Sun Jan 14 16:35:48 EST 2007 | Austin

I have several boards built at various CM's. We have prototype builds with some JTAG failures on BGA's (1-3 failures with qty 3, 1500 pin BGA's). CM's always claim reflow profiles look good. X-ray does not show bridges and they claim it looks good, b

Re: Immersion White Tin Process for PCB Finish

Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 14 07:55:07 EST 2000 | Pat Pepper

Hi Wolfgang, Thanks for the response. We had a similar situation to yours with some white tin samples that sat around for about eight months. Samples soldered right after they arrived soldered better than the ones we soldered eight months down the

Re: Immersion Gold

Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 01 05:03:28 EDT 1999 | Wolfgang Busko

| | | I am having problems processing immersion gold boards. The achieved solder joints appear acceptable a la IPC-A-610, but the resultant joint does not fully cover the land, i.e. you can still see an outline of gold pad. | | | What is the best way

Pattern matching type fiducial at Topaz/ Emerald machines

Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 24 07:07:52 EDT 2007 | stefi

Hi, Thanks for the reply, The fiducial which posed problems is a 1 mm diameter gold plated circle fiducial. The problem with this is that the vision system sees it darker than the surrounding area. The surrounding area is all copper covered with th

Re: PCB fab supplier supplier/evaluation

Electronics Forum | Sun Aug 08 11:15:32 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon

| | Mike, | | | | Got your message and those of others concerning PCB fab supplier evaluation and qualification check lists, etc. I have a severe problem here in WI as I can hardly access the internet, and when I do it is cut off abruptly for no goo

Re: Things I Like Without Endorsing

Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 05 00:27:54 EDT 1999 | Dean

| | | To you all for comment and summary, | | | | | | The following things I like without endorsing (PCB/PCBA stuff - outside the great women in my life [many] and without [mostly]): | | | | | | 1) A good set of design rules | | | 2) A good set of


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