Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 05 16:08:41 EST 2006 | dphilbrick
I would suspect if you had a full evaluation done there would be the same issue with Nickel oxidation everywhere. The reason BGA's fall off (or have solder connection issues first) is due to their size. A slight flex in the board has a much larger im
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 28 21:07:44 EST 2000 | Alvin K
Gold is porous and spots on gold plated PCBs is one of the drawbacks of using gold as a solderability protector. Base Nickel exposure seems to be the cause of this and is aggravated when the gold thickness is less than what it should be. I agree with
Electronics Forum | Fri May 02 09:49:19 EDT 2003 | tommyg_fla
3NaH2PO3 + H2SO4 + 2H2 + Ni^0 Potassium is co-deposited with the nickel, as follows: H2PO2^- + Hads => H2O + OH^- + P 3H2PO2^- + P => H2PO3^- + H2O + 2OH^- What is Hads?
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 13 22:44:35 EST 2005 | Mike Kennedy
Russ, After a bit more research, I have found that the FLASH gold process doesnt use Phophrous in the process so should not have the black pad problems of ENIG. I am now surprised that you had problems. What did you experience? Was it an oxsidisation
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 07 21:08:48 EST 2006 | Cmiller
it is not that I am aware of either. Make sure you get your boards from a house that does the gold plating in-house or you will continue to have the problem. The gold needs to be plated immediatly after the nickel, not a few days later. I have only h
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 08 13:01:35 EST 2006 | Cmiller
I cant seem to get to that link but we tried everything we could think of and there was no way we found to get solder to adhere to the pads. I guess if you took a burnishing brush and polished the nickel off and got down to the bare copper you may be
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 01 05:18:59 EST 2013 | eniac
If you have a hard-gold on your pads, it's not a problem. Hard gold can give to you 4 or 5 times for PCB soldering (BGA repair). Soft gold (or flash-gold) can destruct, after that will start a migration of nickel up through gold, your pads will be
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 08 08:52:54 EST 2002 | dphilbrick
Juan There are many things that cause this and the first thing I would do is request quality records from your board fab facility on that particular lot. If they are unwilling to give them to you this is a good sign they had a processing problem. Th
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 30 16:28:51 EDT 2010 | 18424
Hello All, looking for some help from you guru's. I have several Enig boards with solderability problems. Components ranging from 0402's to ssop's. Using AIM W/S leaded solder paste, profile is beautiful and has been for years running the same produc
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 01 08:58:47 EDT 2002 | Rick Lathrop
Good morning Dave F. I am not going to try to touchup the solder pad until I get surface analysis work done, don't want to ruin the evidence. I am getting XPS work done not XRF, XPS is X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and can see very thin films of o
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