Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 03 07:40:48 EDT 2002 | Yannick
Hi, WE are making some test with this kind of component and aperture and here what we think. when you use a home plate aperture it's seem that the component is not lenght enought to have a good solder but maybe is our CAD guy that didn't make a
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 04 10:04:14 EST 2005 | jbrower
We use Alpha UP-78 (Older paste formula) and it works well for what we do. We standardized our stencils at 5mil with a 10% reduction on IC apetures and a home plate design on passive components. Additionally we use laser cut electro-polished stenci
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 30 08:53:17 EST 2007 | jaimebc
Shy, Our 5 and 6 mils stencils have home plate apertures and reduced by 10% and using SMT adhesive. Never had a problem with components non wetting like you have. I do believe that you are not screening enough paste, something about the dog bone ape