Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 30 16:28:51 EDT 2010 | 18424
Hello All, looking for some help from you guru's. I have several Enig boards with solderability problems. Components ranging from 0402's to ssop's. Using AIM W/S leaded solder paste, profile is beautiful and has been for years running the same produc
Electronics Forum | Sat Apr 04 19:17:23 EDT 2015 | sync40
Hello to everybody. Does someone have some experience or review in the past with roller tinning machines? I mean low cost machines with two rollers and a molten solder tank. The finished soldermasked PCB pass through the rollers (like a lamination)
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 05 16:12:16 EDT 2010 | dyoungquist
We are installing via reflow soldering a crystal that has 2 pads, 1 each end. They are flat pads on the bottom of the part with a small area of the pad looping around and up the side of the crystal on the end. Inspection of the cyrstal under a 40X
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 31 16:23:37 EDT 1998 | Bill Boles
We have an unusual problem here and I'm reaching for more input if anyone can help??? We are an OEM manufacturer of PCA's. After a history of consistent quality designs, we have one small memory SIMM that is causing major headaches for us and our PCB
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 22 12:18:12 EDT 1998 | Tryin'
| Board shops and us, the user, have a lot on our hands. As far as getting traces - this is done using an etch resist before solder mask and the HASL processes are performed. So when in the process is HASL performed?? | With tin/lead plated boards,
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 26 01:01:24 EDT 2002 | ianchan
Steve, Dason has valid points here. dun listen to what supplier's say about paste lying on the PCB pads able to be exposed at ambient temperatures for 8-24 hrs? that will never get approval for Class-3 type of customer auditors. (Would any serious
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 26 10:40:43 EDT 2005 | patrickbruneel
Jimmy, We've been soldering tin plated components and Ni/Sn (100% Tin) boards with leaded solder in the 80's in hirel and military applications. We never experienced reliability issues with the mechanical or electrical properties of the solder joint
Electronics Forum | Sun Feb 05 09:49:11 EST 2006 | Cmiller
We have been using ENIG for 8 years as our primary board finish. We have not seen any issues with tenting the vias. We have used a number of suppliers. The ENIG from China does not seem to solder quite as well in general but only had black pad from o
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 05 07:02:11 EST 2007 | CL
ASIR, Findings for us so far: OSP- has worked well for us for single sided boards only. We have seen problems with using it on double sided reflow applications. Also, some customers have specified OSP, but are intolerant of exposed copper. Limited
Electronics Forum | Fri May 07 09:25:55 EDT 2010 | dwonch
Yes, the vias under the BGAs are the only ones capped. I tend to agree with you that the leaching should affect the bottom more than the top and that was actually the case with the two previous shops that had this problem. We suspected with those s
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