Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 11 20:11:07 EST 2013 | davef
Matt: What's the solderability protection on the boards? * Specification? * Actual? Are the boards fabricated by the same supplier?
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 12 06:36:13 EST 2013 | mleber
Dave, See attachments. Thanks.
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 08 17:49:05 EST 2013 | davef
First, it's a surprise that your failure analysis lab thought everything was OK with these boards. They look like shit. Second, a few years ago, there was a bunch of complaints about ENIG boards with issues similar to what you're observing. There wa
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 13 18:00:59 EST 2013 | davef
It's too bad that SMTnet won't let us view your pdf. I asked the geeks to fix that. If someone really want to read it Matt can likely get it off to you. Is it OK to do that, Matt? Anyhow, the Trace Labs report seems to be focused on some SMT pad dis
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 08 18:32:39 EST 2013 | hegemon
Dave is right, though apparently a bit grumpy today. What he's saying is that the ring de-wetting is a bad thing, and should have been called out by your lab. You might consider a lab change in the future. Some information about your processes, an
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 11 10:51:40 EST 2013 | dyoungquist
Are you using lead or lead-free solder? 260C would be good for lead solder but may be a bit low for lead-free. We run our lead-free selective solder pot at 300C although we do not have any pre-heat or top heat, just hot nitrogen blowing around the
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 12 13:42:19 EST 2011 | dwonch
Hi All, I'm hoping there is a PCB expert or two hanging around. We're having some solderability issue on our boards. The finish is ENIG but it doesn't seem to be related to the finish process itself. We did SEM and EDX analysis and found aluminum an
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 11 08:47:00 EST 2013 | mleber
Thanks guys. Here are more details. The cards are essentially the same. They use the same connectors, same footprint, the traces / layers would be comparable etc. The difference between the 2 we see is that one is laminate - Rigid Metal Clad Base, Ty
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 05 03:09:57 EDT 2000 | Gyver
Hi Dave, Thanks for your great help! Well, gold fingers are always on any kind of cards, right? Or you were confused by my poor English...sorry!:-( Now we are going to implement some kind of method to prevent the gold fingers from being contaminated
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 19 01:56:53 EDT 2011 | ppcbs
I've been seeing a lot of product come in with what appears to be black pad lately. I've sent stuff out to labs to be told there is no contamination. Contamination or not solder won't wet to it. Regardless of what it is we have a method to remove
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