Electronics Forum | Thu May 05 09:17:58 EDT 2005 | jimmiem
I tried soldering to several of the black pads and was successful, the solder stuck with no hesitation. so i guess this is not truly "black pad"? would that be a correct statement? What causes this blackening that looks like oxidation under the mic
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 27 17:47:36 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| While inspecting incoming PCBs we detected around all plated-through-holes (only there and all in the same place) some halfmoonshaped light rings that match obviously only with the pink ring symptom shown in the IPC-A-600 chapter 2.5.2.. That would
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 21 22:10:07 EDT 2003 | adlsmt
Well, for some reason the board house will pay for the boards but has some issue with paying for the parts on them. Why am I not supprised? Perhaps I have mis-diagnosed the problem. We have found two different board p/n's with the same type of defec
Electronics Forum | Fri May 23 23:58:48 EDT 2014 | edriansyah
Hi Hege. I was not also too confident with the black pad (coz no black residue on the remaining pad). But based on my search on the internet regarding black pad. Most of them shows a very clean BGA Pad after peel off the BGA as the picture reference
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 03 20:30:11 EST 2007 | mrduckmann2000
We too are having issues with our soldering iron tips. We purchased the new Weller WD series irons which we were told would work just fine with lead-free solder. The Weller unit has changed 3 times in the last year(latest unit is the WD2M series).
Electronics Forum | Sat May 29 16:56:26 EDT 1999 | Jeff Sanchez
| | I have always thought it to be a good practice to wash SMA's with water soluble paste (WS609) soon after reflow. Is there a time limit as to how long a board should sit after reflow before washing said board? For instance; processing a double-
Electronics Forum | Sun May 30 10:15:34 EDT 1999 | Vic Lau
| | | | I have always thought it to be a good practice to wash SMA's with water soluble paste (WS609) soon after reflow. Is there a time limit as to how long a board should sit after reflow before washing said board? For instance; processing a dou
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 14 12:18:01 EST 2000 | genny
Hello all, Our company has always used HASL finish on our products. Recently however, we have a had a problem on a couple of boards that I have been told cannot be avoided with HASL, and we should switch to ENIG(electroless nickel immersion gold).
Electronics Forum | Mon May 23 10:53:32 EDT 2005 | HOSS
Eric, We also have a UPK 650C. Our machine was configured for N2 and using the ConTour nozzle. If you're using this nozzle without N2 you're creating tons of dross unnecessarily not to mention probably getting tons of icicling. We found out the h
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 08 22:25:23 EST 2005 | davef
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