Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 29 10:02:28 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
Chris A lot of people have reported sudden, fab lot related problems with Ni/Au pads. These are usually characterized by a discoloration of the gold and called cheerful names like "black pad disease". This can be a process problem at your fab house
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 03 23:11:04 EDT 2000 | Patrick Ng
hi, We are receiving PCBs with gold fingers "discolored". The "discolored" gold fingers can be removed if rub with soft eraser! We are working with suppliers to determine the root cause and eliminate this issue. Pls assist if you have encountered si
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 09 12:20:28 EDT 2009 | richardli
What is the cause of this discoloarion? Soldermask masterial wrong? Thanks.
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 18 09:25:16 EDT 2009 | ysutariya
There's not really a good answer except that I think that the industry wasn't really prepared for such an increased use of white soldermask combined with the importance of using the white as a reflecting surface. Essentially, the resins commonly u
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 06 20:10:06 EDT 2000 | Dave F
I agree. Make them quit doing this ugly thing to your boards!!!
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 20 14:17:35 EDT 2008 | robinj
The discoloration/shadow appearance is a clear sign of black pad which is from nickel corrosion in the gold bath.
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 15 10:23:48 EDT 2004 | mrmaint
Matt, are there any discoloration of the pads on the raw boards. i have seen what we refer to as gray pads. Ran into this in the past and it turned out to be a problem at the board house with one of their dipping tanks. The proper levels for the proc
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 26 12:18:53 EDT 1999 | Gary Kemp
We are having a discolorization problem with the gold fingers on our PCB's. I have been made aware that there is a gold touch-up paint (masking) that is available. Would anyone know where I can get my hands on some of it? Any help would be appreci
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 06 10:02:14 EST 2006 | Yash Sutariya
Sorry. I actually should clarify those slides. Black pad is not associated with tented vias. Also, you can tent vias with soldermask, but this requires the immersion gold process to be completed prior to soldermask. As such, all copper features (
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 28 17:23:03 EST 2006 | flipit
Flash gold usually refers to electrolytic gold with a short plating time. In other words gold plating that requires current to plate. If you have bare copper under your soldermask, the gold is probably ENIG. The only other way to have bare copper
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