Electronics Forum | Mon May 24 10:45:04 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| Can anyone help me with the correct baking cycle for removing moisture for PWB's. These are 10 layer double sided SMT. | | Thank You R. J. Klein Wassink in Soldering in Electronics states - 16 hours @ 105C or 40 hours @ 80C in a ventilated oven
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 25 03:24:11 EDT 2009 | fiona_j
Hello, I have been recently bringing a new RoHS wave soldering machine into production. Unfortunately, I am finding many of the boards are experiencing blow holes. It is always silver plated PCBs and I believe it is related to moisture ingress. I n
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 04 11:34:42 EDT 2002 | Bob Willis
Some additional comments from a paper may be of interest. Baking Printed Circuit Boards - Why and How Baking printed boards prior to conventional and surface mount assembly should not be necessary. Often boards are baked for historical reasons; in
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 20 08:23:23 EDT 2009 | ratsalad
One diagnostic tool that I have found useful in the past is the "hot plate test". Place suspect components and/or PCB's on a hot plate and turn it on High. Then observe. Granted the conditions on the hot plate are not the same as in a reflow oven,
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 13 17:46:04 EST 2011 | davef
We've never seen the defect that you describe, but in wave soldering-land blowholes usually are caused by moisture in the board that out-gasses through the too thin plating of through holes. * Bandaid fix: bake the boards * Long-term fix: Obtain boar
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 14 19:13:21 EST 2006 | russ
You have incomplete plating in the through holes would be my bet, baking will not solve, nothing will, at least that is what I have found except a lot of hand work and frustration, have your PCB house perform cross section at affected area in your
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 28 07:36:25 EDT 2007 | davef
If the copper on your PTH is not one thou, you will get blowholes. With the cost of copper going through the ceiling, you will get less than one thou of copper plating from substandard suppliers. Consider baking your boards prior to wave soldering
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 15 08:01:12 EDT 2010 | patrickbruneel
What you have is blowholes. Baking your boards prior to soldering will help. Root cause is either barrel plating too thin or barrel cracks allowing laminate moisture to escape. Patrick
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 15 08:00:09 EDT 2010 | patrickbruneel
What you have is blowholes. Baking your boards prior to soldering will help. Root cause is either barrel plating too thin or barrel cracks allowing laminate moisture to escape. Patrick
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 17 05:16:44 EDT 2013 | vincentdesilva2003
Anyone can help me how many percentage of blowholes and pinholes if i do the followings: 1. Increase copper plating thickness more than 25 microns. 2. Pre Baking of PCB to remove gassing by drying out the PCB's
