Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 13 19:34:09 EST 1999 | Steve Thomas
Thanks, gentlemen. All points well taken, and some hit pretty close to home. Our pick-and-place programmer assures me that coplanarity isn't the issue because the machine won't (or can't) place parts beyond an acceptable criteria. It's an Amistar
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 30 08:09:19 EST 2006 | INGE
Hi everybody, The matter is this: after reflow, on top side leads of chip components (resistor 0805)appear some empty balls of solder. In some cases this thing is only on the lead and the solder joint seems good, in other cases this empty ball is als
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 23 13:31:20 EDT 2004 | russ
The toes of leaded devices are problematic in fillet formation. A lot of the time they have the copper from the lead exposed so it becomes oxidized and won't readily take solder. Normally this is of no concern if the heel and side fillets are forme
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 22 12:25:07 EDT 2000 | Boca
Jason, What Chrys said! Don't try to run the bottom cooler, tried it in the mid 80's, don't work and don't want it to work. If one side of a fab is maintained cooler than liquidus and the other side into reflow it would have an easy 40C temp diffe
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 05 16:12:16 EDT 2010 | dyoungquist
We are installing via reflow soldering a crystal that has 2 pads, 1 each end. They are flat pads on the bottom of the part with a small area of the pad looping around and up the side of the crystal on the end. Inspection of the cyrstal under a 40X
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 09 00:26:46 EDT 2002 | craigj
Are currently investigating a change of solder paste for various reasons and are considering a move from 63/37 to using 2% silver solder paste for increased long term reliabilty of solder joints with gold finish PCBs and to further reduce reflow temp
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 28 17:05:46 EDT 2012 | davef
Here’s what we seem to know: * There’s a problem with voiding in the solder connections of SMT capacitors * A void is an open area caused by air or process fluid that is trapped within a solder connection * Voids are an allowable condition as long as
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 15 15:13:50 EST 1998 | justin medernach
| I have a problem! The solder on my pc boards look great comeing out | of my reflow oven. They go thrue the rest of the prossese | and at the end at the qc station it's cold or whitish or gray not shiny. | does any one have a idea on how to correct
Electronics Forum | Fri May 21 18:32:53 EDT 2004 | Abe Froman
We have been using nitrogen in our reflow ovens for many years to reduce oxidation on our solder joints. Management is concerned about the high cost of nitrogen and have suggested we use hydrogen instead. I'm not sure if this is a good idea, but we
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 02 16:06:32 EST 2000 | eLDON sANDERS
Gentlemen, I too have been atacked by that "soldering to gold" and will add my 2 cents. I also had parts that would pop off the board when the fillet looked perfect. After lots of pain, experimentation, and sleepless nights, I solved it through a
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