Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 30 22:40:32 EDT 2009 | davef
Selective Wave Soldering DoE to Develop DfM Guidelines for Lead and Pb-Free Assemblies Written by Makram Boulos, Craig Hamilton, Mario Moreno, Ramon Mendez, German Soto and Jessica Herrera Circuits Assembly Magazine, 31 December 2008 19:00
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 11 17:48:39 EDT 2003 | Brian W.
Assuming you are working to IPC standards, are you working to Class2 or Class 3? Class 2 has an exception to the 75% barrel fill (para 6.3.1, page 6-7). "As an exception to fill requirements of Table 6-2 on PTHs with thermal planes or conductor
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 16 11:15:53 EDT 2008 | davef
A good solder connection with heavy ground plane requires: * Plenty of heat [Is the preheater located too far from the wave? Whenever you look at board temperature, there is a sharp decrease in temperature between the preheater and the wave.] * Conta
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 19 19:08:21 EDT 2000 | Brian W.
IPC-610 Rev B: Paragraph 4.1 (page 52), As an exception to fil requirements on Table 4-1 on thermal heat sink planes plated through holes, a 50% vertical fill of solder is permitted, but with solder extending 360 degrees around the lead with 100% wet
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 26 22:52:47 EDT 2001 | davef
GT 8 years ago every board saw "touchup". Touch was done to fix boards to conform to A-610. Now A-610 allows less than complete hole fill. Our operators were totally freaking nuts about touching boards. They touched each others touch and on and o
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 02 20:47:22 EDT 2001 | davef
Cuppla questions for ya ... Where are the shorts [above the mask or between the mask and the laminate]? On the board, what material is between the copper traces and the mask? What type of solder mask(s) used by your suppliers? What are they using
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 14 17:10:37 EDT 2010 | hegemon
Heck, now I look up and see this is SMTdotNET. Do I get banned for asking a TH question? So here's my first real TH issue after living so long in the SMT world. We are having a sudden issue in what has been a stable process for quite some time. I
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 28 19:58:58 EST 2002 | davef
Well, reflow certainly would increase your preheat, wouldn�t it? On the other hand, some PTH [and SMT] components cannot bear the heat of a reflow oven. Some boards will never see proper barrel fill, because of either: * Design of the board. * Sl
Electronics Forum | Fri May 18 13:30:52 EDT 2001 | mparker
I will start with the statement that I think it is great that we have the ability to solder SMT components that emulates wave soldered components. With that in mind, I would want to find acceptance criteria to be similiar, regardless of the solder me
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 22 19:34:56 EDT 2010 | hegemon
Thanks for the help guys. Nice to think I was basically on the right path. PCB manufacturer has finally conceded the barrel defects and is remaking the PCBs. We are big on pre-tinning the leads of TH connectors as well as providing some good pre
