Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 16 16:45:44 EDT 2008 | trynders
Thanks for the response! I thought is was odd the component vendor chose SAC for a lead frame finish. I am in the Military world, and things have been difficult to control from a lead-free standpoint. I have not been able to find any studies on SAC
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 12 11:02:20 EST 2008 | patrickbruneel
Greg, I totally agree with you that machine settings are very important in wave soldering and soldering in general. I disagree that lead free alloys can produce wetting like in the attached picture (leaded alloy). Lead free alloys have a much higher
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 10 16:15:24 EST 2008 | terryl
on the front end in design, minimize the pth connections to ground planes. this takes alot of work by the pcb designer and the approval of the design engineer. connect maximum of 4 ground planes to pth, minimum 1 plane. use spoked connections. ev
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 11 07:29:58 EST 2008 | jdumont
I have done a few studies on this issue here. As a result we have increased hole diameter on heavily ground planed pins to a min of .015" over the lead diameter as well as preheating the PCB when hand soldering. I have also had to order the upper pre
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 18 14:38:41 EST 2008 | easton
I think the BLT solder joints look very shiny for no-lead. We are getting very good top side solder with ours though. They look like this. - Gold Enig plating - Alpha EF-6100 Flux - SAC305 - Preheat topside temperatures at 110 to 120C
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 03 22:42:49 EDT 2006 | C.K. the Flip
Cuculi, I'll have to go ahead and disagree with you. Very few PCB Suppliers (if any, and if there are any, they're lying) will promise an exact thickness spec. be it Sn/Pb HASL or this fancy, schmancy Sn100c HASL balogna. After all, the HASL proce
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 10 09:29:59 EST 2008 | rgduval
Oops...just noticed you were referring to wave soldering. We'd still suggest a water-soluble flux, instead of the no-clean; especially at wave soldering. Also, checking pre-heat temps, and dwell time on the pot. Is the wave a chipper wave? If not
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 16 16:49:22 EST 2008 | scottd3
We ran into this problem before, on all of our models. We never quite found out the reason, we do know that if the PCB is passed through a reflow oven that is extremely dirty with evaporated solder paste flux, it will make it extremely difficult (or
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 27 08:38:03 EDT 2006 | cuculi54986@yahoo.com
I tried some SN100C from AIM... On only one array. It flowed well on the chips but did not like the finish on the SOT23's on the board. I did not have enough arrays to mess around, so we switched it over to SAC305 and had no issues. I'm guessing w
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 10 08:30:20 EST 2008 | rgduval
Are you using no-clean solder, or just no clean flux? If you're using a solder with WS flux in the core, and a no-clean flux; we'd suggest switching to a WS flux to help during the soldering. If you are using a no-clean solder/flux combination, you
