Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 10 12:53:16 EST 2006 | muse95
There is a tape test from IPC in their TM-650 spec that can be downloaded for free from the ipc website. It will test for gold adhesion to the underlying nickel. Section 2.4.1E, I believe. It is quite simple to perform.
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 02 05:28:13 EDT 1999 | Vinesh gandhi
| | | We are wave soldering some fabs with a lot of unmasked trace area along the edges. The trace area is solid copper covered with tin / lead, no masking, no components along the edges, same on solder side and component side (goofy board design).
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 02 09:54:02 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| | | | We are wave soldering some fabs with a lot of unmasked trace area along the edges. The trace area is solid copper covered with tin / lead, no masking, no components along the edges, same on solder side and component side (goofy board design)
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 02 10:06:17 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| | | | We are wave soldering some fabs with a lot of unmasked trace area along the edges. The trace area is solid copper covered with tin / lead, no masking, no components along the edges, same on solder side and component side (goofy board design)
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
