Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 09 09:09:27 EST 2011 | swag
By no means clean room but pretty clean environment. We have ultrasonic air humidifiers maintaining our air at about 45 RH. I agree with you about airborne stuff attaching to electro-static. It's a mystery why it is isolated to four machine, thoug
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 02 05:31:45 EDT 2014 | jdumont
We have four or five of these guys scattered around our 40,000sqft plant spraying DI water. They have a not so accurate built in humidistat but its good enough and they aren't that expensive for upfront cost. Just lube the packing washers in the gun
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 23 12:22:12 EST 2007 | Grant
Hi, I ran a clean room once, and the humidifiers were built into the exit air ducts, and controlled by a humidity control unit that kept things at 60%. We were loading VHS tapes, and needed to keep humidity at that level or static discharges caused
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 08 09:53:23 EST 2010 | fönsi
Hello Because of the cold weather, we had some troubles with drying out of printed solder paste on the pcb's. The relative humidity in the air declined below of 20%. We have a process window of store the printed board for maximum 24 hours, but with
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 24 18:50:31 EDT 2020 | premkumar_haribabu
Dear experts, We are in stage to fix lapse or hold time between pre-bake to reflow process ( SMT ) for flex-rigid PCB, usually for flex pcb , we need to assemble as early as possible once after baking & if not , we can store in humidifier up to some
Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 12 10:46:46 EDT 1998 | Dennis B
We're installing our first SMT line and my boss asked me a question I couldn't answer right off the top of my head. I have been an SMT process engineer for about 12 years and I guess this just never came up before. I was surprised but it made good se
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 13 19:58:28 EST 2001 | davef
No. I have never measured the temperature of the top of a BGA package during wave soldering. Mr. Kelly�s "actual body temperature" of 140-150�C during wave soldering is probably accurate [most of the time]. It�s the utility of this measurement tha
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 30 08:38:55 EDT 2002 | dasal
Truthfully, there are pro's and con's for both technologies. (put cost of ownership aside for one moment) Nitrogen won't dry humidified components as rapidly as a desiccant dry box. I'm talking about a self regenerating dry box that uses molecular s
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 16 15:44:27 EDT 2007 | davef
J-STD-001 doesn't necessarily require additional controls under conditions of low humidity, only that you verify the effectiveness of what you have in place. ESD S20.20 [1999] only says that relative humidity above 30% is "desirable". ESD S20.20 [200
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 17 21:48:09 EDT 2007 | davef
Per ESD Handbook TR 20.20 paragraph 5.3.15 Humidity "Humidity is beneficial in all ESD Control Program Plans. Contact and separation of dry materials generates greater electrostatic charges than moist materials because moisture provides conductivity
