Electronics Forum | Sun Aug 23 11:42:01 EDT 2009 | ysutariya
Hi Dave, I haven't tried the Probimer yet, but the Taiyo ink didn't hold up too well. As a PCB fabricator, finding a white soldermask that has good trace coverage and survives 4X solder immersion (HASL) is like the holy grail of white soldermask.
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 15 14:09:48 EDT 2010 | richardli
We found stains on the boards come out of reflow oven. The board itself color changed to yellowish from white . We understand discolor soldermask due to high temperature. This can be acceptable by our customer not the stains. The stains look like wa
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 26 14:11:25 EDT 1999 | Dave F
Gary: Two things: 1 Reworking golding fingers is an old topic, check the SMTnet archives to get started. 2 Gold fingers should not be discoloring, unless: * You are doing something bad to them ... OR * Your supplier has doinked the process, which
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 20 13:17:05 EDT 2008 | jdumont
No pictures pre-paste. I have noticed on a few occasions a couple of boards that look like they have a slight discoloration on some areas of the board. Kind of like a shadow almost on the gold. Josh
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 22 12:45:52 EST 2021 | proceng1
You say the resistor is blown. Is the body discolored? Is it possible that these are not the colors, like maybe the first GOLD is actually orange? Perhaps post a photo?
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 18:07:25 EST 2006 | Chris
Flash gold is just thin gold plating over electroless nickel or electrolytic nickel. Flash gold is electrolytic gold where the panel is connected to a plating rectifier and current causes the plating process to occur. Gold thickness is controlled b
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 05 17:06:36 EDT 2000 | Michael Parker
Patrick- You have not given enought detail of the type of discoloration. Is it "white residue"? Can it be "rust" colored? Whatever it is, you fab supplier needs to be called in immediately and give you an exact reason for this failure. Just rubbing
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 19 20:49:13 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| Netters, | | When I reflow a PCB there is a discoloration of silkscreen and mask. It appears if Profile is too hot! But I dont think so, maybe I'm wrong? | | 1. Kester 293 no clean | 2. 2.1 C/s for 30s to 150 C | 3. .5 - .7 C/s for 60s to 185
Electronics Forum | Fri May 28 15:50:48 EDT 1999 | Frank Boyko
We now put soldermask on copper and then immersion nickel/gold plate our fine line boards. One of our vendors says this causes skipped plating in small via holes and wants to nickel/gold plate the whole board, including via holes, and then apply sold
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 06 13:31:35 EDT 2000 | Michael Parker
Thanks Dave for the right methods that will get Patrick out of his mess. As long as one is a "Do it yurselfer". I still advocate having the supplier accept responsibility and clean the boards. After a bit of elbow grease, some cussin' and lost time I
