Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 25 20:48:17 EDT 2004 | rose
Hello recently I met one very interesting issue with my board and connector. substrate of the board is copper with immersion silver, pad size is about 3x1mm. we print lead-free paste on the pad, then put the connector on the paste. The board was refl
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 22 20:14:44 EST 2009 | herman
If you wish to specify ENIG, your best method of doing it is to simply invoke IPC-4552 (or IPC-4553 for immersion silver) on the fabrication drawing. These IPC standards define ENIG and IAg, and I believe they specify 150-180 uinches of nickel covere
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 12 22:18:42 EDT 2020 | stephendo
Almost all the people here buy boards with the metal already plated on. We are mostly assembly people. The ones you really want to talk to are PCB fab people. And if you want to look into plating PCBs, I would suggest you look up Black Pad. It hasn'
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 21 11:49:33 EST 2010 | remullis
1st the buyer shouldn't control the process based on cost. Let them buy stuff and stick to that. 2nd, I do think leveling in th HASL process is important. If you have high spots on pads for fine pitch your wiping away more of that aperture than othe
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 08 12:40:54 EST 2001 | Ralph Merk
We are currently using 0402 resistors and capacitors in our production process. Our equipment is as follows: - DEK 265 - Siemens S25/F5 - Vitronics XPM520(5 zones) - 2% silver solder Alpha WS678 The problem is that randomly some 0402 capacitors are
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 22 09:45:26 EDT 2006 | bradlanger
Greg, All the above. It looked like it was going to be a drop for SNPB HASL at first but after a few thousand boards we started running into all the problems you are describing. We first started seeing non wetting on SMT pads. The solder would wet t
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 28 17:03:59 EDT 1999 | M Cox
| Hey there gang, how's it going ? | | Anyway's here's my probelm, got a new product to build double sided reflow, lot's of so20's and PLcc's 1206's, 0805's the usual stuff. Probelm is all the pad spacing of the 1206's are too big, my component's ar
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 07 05:36:21 EST 2003 | O' Connor
Hi Again, In answer to DaveF - Yes solder is fine where the solder paste is deposited , but the part of the pad visible after pasting is still visible after reflow. Previously the solder paste & all the gold diffused & flowed giving a complete silve
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 14 13:42:45 EST 2006 | patrickbruneel
If the OSP boards have gone through double reflow I assume that you use an aggressive (halide) flux for wave soldering. SAC 305 is known (search the archives) to dissolve copper faster than other lead-free alloys. This together with an aggressive flu
Electronics Forum | Mon May 18 20:57:06 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
.025" pitch so the only problem we run into is too much HASL on the adhesive side causing improper glue dispense. | As Earl keeps saying HASL thickness is hard to impossible to control. I think we need to look hard at OSP's again but then you get in