Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 17 13:54:26 EST 2009 | snsmt
Hello All, I am trying to find some answers regarding acceptability of a RJ-11 Connector (phone jack). We have just received thousands of these connectors in and some of the gold plate contacts show some discoloration. The contacts are pink. I was w
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 | 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 | Thu Jul 10 09:55:47 EDT 2003 | davef
A reading of the pictures is: A1: Looks like pad [B1] is smaller than the other pads. It�s weird that the pads are such different colors. A2: Looks like pad [B1] is smaller than the other pads. Solder mask opening [B1] is misregistered and seems s
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 14 08:05:54 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | | I believe that gold fingers on my circuit boards are being | | | | contaminated and need to clean them with some chemical | | | | solution. Any recommendations. | | | | | | | Chuck: What is the type and source of your contamination? Dave
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 28 23:15:44 EDT 2014 | phyllishwl
Hi all, Our production reported that they found 3 panels out of 53 panels with strange phenomenon after reflow. 1/ Blister / Delamination of PCB panels, 2pcs blister/delamination under solder mask, 1pc under Gold plating at Gold finger 2/ Silkscr
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 18 13:48:37 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| We currently use HASL on all of our boards and I would like to move to something else. I have sampled some boards with Entek OSP and I loved it, the problem is we have plated mounting holes on just about every board we make. Does anyone have info
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 29 09:39:08 EDT 2014 | rgduval
I'll try to deal with the issues as you've presented them. 1. Blistering/delamination, shown in photo 2. The most likely cause of blistering/delamination like this is moisture in the boards. The moisture can get into the boards in multiple ways..
