Electronics Forum | Sat May 27 12:50:21 EDT 2000 | Micah Newcomb
Steve, I use homebase apertures as a standard for all chip parts and have no complaints, no solder beading, no issues. I have had to replace almost all stencils ordered previous to my arrival as they all caused defects (7-9mil thickness and 1:1
Electronics Forum | Sun May 28 08:21:52 EDT 2000 | Sal
Can't agree more than moving over to Homebase apertures, But ensure that the cut back angle is correct,to acute of and angle will leave you with an inadequate contact area fot the terminations on the chip components and you will start seeing insuffic
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 10 12:56:15 EDT 2000 | Ken Van ZIll
I agree that homplate is a good design, but also this could be caused by the stencil thickness and aperture size, if you are at 7-9 mils thick stencil and a 1:1 ratio on aperture size then 2 things i know of will happen, one a squishing out of past o
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 09 11:37:27 EDT 2005 | ???
Try home-plated the stencil apertures, and make "V" shape home-plated outside edges of two pads instead of between two pads.
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 09 14:03:06 EDT 2005 | Mei
Nomorely the V-shape home-plated apertures look like two opening mouth facing each other. But this time just opposite way. And make 30% home-plated. Hope you can understand.
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 22 10:56:07 EDT 2007 | ed_faranda
5mil works great. Just make sure that you screen alignment is dead on. We're using a SAC305 with a home plate design. I ran a test a couple of months back and found that the home plate design works the best with 0402s.
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 09 21:09:22 EDT 2008 | elias67
Is the stencil opening rectangular? Home Plate? What is the spacing between the pads on the stencil for the component?
Electronics Forum | Thu May 06 19:21:24 EDT 2021 | markhoch
Verify your aperture reductions in the stencil. Are the solderballs always in the same location? Same size & shape? Is the solder leaching through plated thermal holes from the opposite side of the PCB? Are you using stencil apertures designed to min
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 12 20:50:37 EDT 2001 | davef
One possible reason no one brought-up "too much paste" is that suggestion has been proffered so many times that it�s in the archives like the layers of sediment making-up Kataden. Another thing [we can argue about this], using home plate apertures w
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 20 13:47:04 EDT 1998 | MMurphy
:On a dense board, a great way to reduce solderballing is to either; print paste 1:1 with pad size using a 5mil foil, reduce aperture openings by 10% of pad size or change aperture shape to "Home Plate" design. If none of these work on their own you
