Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 13 23:02:52 EDT 2009 | davef
Use IPC-4552 for your ENIG thickness. Typically, ENIG has nickel deposit with medium [7-9 percent by weight] phosphorus content. That's what fabs do on rigid boards. On a flex with medium-P and IPC-4552 specified ENIG, you could see brittleness and
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 29 18:35:59 EDT 1999 | JohnW
| | Could somebody tell me what means Leaching, ie: "Leaching of terminal end face exposing the ceramic"? | | | Roberto: Leaching, according to the SMTnet Library of Terms: | | Leaching. Dissolution of a metal coating into liquid solder. Nickel ba
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 15 21:29:34 EST 2004 | davef
We�d say that it�s incorrect that ENIG solderability protection cannot be steam aged. It�s true the immersion tin and silver cannot be steam aged. We believe that most of the issues surrounding the poor performance of ENIG after steam aging is attr
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 20 12:43:40 EDT 2000 | rcroteau
RF pcb is all gold with no typical land patterns and multiple surface mount components sharing the same pad. IPC-610-B doesn't speak to inspection criteria. The problems I'm seeing are, insufficient solder, skewed components. Some of the pads have
Electronics Forum | Wed May 30 10:27:52 EDT 2001 | genny
I couldn't find that standard free on the IPC website and was looking for a quicker answer (hang my head in shame...) Sometimes my company's a little frugal, and to get them to buy a standard can be like pulling hen's teeth... I will see what I can
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 29 16:09:44 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| Could somebody tell me what means Leaching, ie: "Leaching of terminal end face exposing the ceramic"? | Roberto: Leaching, according to the SMTnet Library of Terms: Leaching. Dissolution of a metal coating into liquid solder. Nickel barrier unde
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 26 10:03:17 EDT 1999 | Sal
| | Could somebody tell me what means Leaching, ie: "Leaching of terminal end face exposing the ceramic"? | | | Roberto: Leaching, according to the SMTnet Library of Terms: | | Leaching. Dissolution of a metal coating into liquid solder. Nickel ba
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 11 10:08:28 EST 2006 | muse95
This was the test method mentioned to me about 5 years ago, to use for testing for black pad, when we were evaluating the use of gold immersion for the first time. It is not practical for testing the entire surface of a PCB, but it should work well
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 27 10:40:46 EDT 2007 | rgduval
Joris, Yep, very common to have those small blow holes in lead-free alloys. We used to get them very consistently on white-tin finished boards, and less frequently with gold finished boards, for what ever that is worth. IPC-610 actually allows t
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 04 06:26:20 EST 2009 | sachu_70
Hi Peter, The defect you observe during the second side reflow could be caused due to improper Au plating thickness in the PCB fabrication process. You can refer IPC-2221 wherein plating thicknes for ENIG mentions 0.08um to 0.23um for Immersion Gold,
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