Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 14 10:14:04 EST 2000 | PeteB
Jacqueline, Asuming you mean immersion silver: Advantages - Very flat finish compared to HASL, more easily solderable than bare copper with OSP and more process tolerant than this in our experience, reasonable shelf life, cheaper than immersion gol
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 | Mon Jun 08 15:01:02 EDT 1998 | D.Lange
| I work QA at an OEM in Alberta, Canada. I saw earlier posts on the smtnet regarding PCB haloing criteria. I am currently in a dispute with my PCB vendor over the acceptability of haloing (delamination) around plated through holes and vias on a lot
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 16 12:56:56 EDT 2002 | dragonslayr
simon- davef is on the right track. 1st year electronics courses teaches us that you should always check the power supply first. In this case, the power supply in question is not your power source but the regulated power within the unit. I suspect o
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 08 09:41:23 EST 2007 | SWAG
Check the bare board - could also be an unmasked via on the heel of the pad that is sucking solder into it.
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 17 05:48:10 EDT 2012 | stivais
Hi Ben, Yes, this could be the reason but have you ever seen solderability issues for (new) boards with LF-HAL surface finish? I have seen this only if there are surface finish quality issues for bare boards (exposed copper etc.). In this case we di
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 10 09:25:54 EST 2011 | kevinemslie
We have had an issue where a turnkey company has a solderability issue with boards that we supplied. The most thorough way of proving thay the boards work in my opinion is to take a bare panel randomly from the batch (same date code) to have it paste
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 10 10:15:40 EST 2011 | davef
J-STD-003 describes the test methods and gives guidelines for assessing the solderability of bare circuit boards
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