Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 29 13:13:32 EDT 2001 | Brian W.
What workmanship standard are you working to? The IPC book has an allowance for boards with heatsinks or thermal masses that allow less than 75% barrel fill on through hole parts. I would suggest that you check your board layers and determine if yo
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 04 17:16:13 EDT 2004 | Richard
Can anyone comment on inspection criteria for PIH applications. I'm of the opinion that the inspection criteria used for wave soldered joints should be used for PIH. Some colleagues believe that a bottom side fillet is not necessary since the solde
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 04 03:39:39 EDT 2007 | ahdo
Good day, can i seek an advice regarding wave soldering. Will it be advisable to reload the board two times to improve its barrel fill volume? If yes, what is the maximum number of times we can repeat wave soldering on the same board. If no, what
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 06 15:29:01 EDT 2022 | glasscake
Also I should mention, I've ditched the formulas for getting the "optimal" solder amount after being bit by them once. Now I just design a PCB with 4-10 spots for the connector then order a stencil with a range of aperture sizes. Figure out what give
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 15 11:32:04 EDT 2010 | patrickbruneel
Inspecting for plating problems shouldn’t be part of incoming inspection. Your board manufacturer should have the appropriate process control. I shouldn’t have said barrel cracks but plating skips. Plating skips are caused by dull drills or a too hi
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 13 21:59:42 EST 2007 | davef
This processes has the potential to cause barrel cracking and pad lifting, because the heating is very hot [troop crank-up the volume on their iron when they see thick boards] for a relatively small area on one side of the board. What do we suggest
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 06 15:26:12 EDT 2022 | glasscake
No experience with low temp solders for PIHR but we do use standard lead free 245-255 peak profiles on high temp connectors frequently. Honestly the added cost of the high temp connector pays for itself in labor. I almost always use oversized apertu
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 11 07:51:15 EDT 2016 | davef
Hi Steve ... There are arguments between fabricators and thermal relievers about adding non-connected copper tabs to barrels in hopes of providing thermal relief, but that's not what you're talking about, I believe. I don't foresee an issue moving t
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 27 17:33:25 EST 2000 | Dave F
Ramon: I guarantee you there is corrosion on the solderable surfaces of your board. The issues are: * Flux selected is capable of removing the corrosion at hand. * Processes for applying the flux and soldering the board are effective for the sele
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 04 09:54:39 EDT 2008 | redtiger56
We have been seeing continued difficulty with solder shorts and/or insufficient barrel fill with our Juki selective solder machine while using SAC305. We want to switch to something in the SN100 series, but we do not know enough to seperate the hype
