Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 08 16:12:19 EDT 2017 | davef
Your plater's recommendation should work fine. Your simple copper plate will work, but you'll be stepping into fighting a copper tarnish battle. Silver over the copper is a better choice. I was thinking a silver thickness of a minimum of 3 microns
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 26 14:40:07 EDT 2010 | blnorman
We had one product that used immersion silver plating. There were a couple of instances where we saw tarnishing, and elemental analysis confirmed the presence of sulfur. These boards did have the anti-tarnish sheets between boards, but somehow they
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 03 16:15:30 EDT 2008 | blnorman
Elemental is by SEM/EDX. The brown coloration does resemble the 3 micron photo. Again, if I'm picking up copper (our Ag plating thickness requirements are 0.05 micron to 0.12 micron following IPC 4553), maybe we do have a porous silver plating.
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 16 07:21:17 EST 2019 | SMTA-Joe
I am experiencing a "tarnishing" issue on PWB traces that may be causing problems with component reflow. The PWB traces are made to the following spec: SOLDER MASK OVER BARE COPPPER WITH SILVER IMMERSION PLATING PER IPC4553, PLATING TO BE 8-12 MIC
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 23 08:43:32 EDT 2008 | davef
Ugh, there are more reasons that immersion silver [IAg] to go yellowish than pigs at the county fair. That aside, sulphur is one of the reasons, as you say. The sulphur can be from a variety of sources, such as: * Pollution in the air * Ill advised p
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 27 10:35:21 EDT 2000 | Russ
Scott, I am a little confused, when you mention "silver thru hole vs. plated through hole what do you mean. A silver "immersion" type finish vs. HASL (Tin lead)on your PCB? Or are you talking about using silver solder to perform intrusive reflow of
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 26 13:13:07 EST 2009 | rgduval
We've had this same problem with the solder wicking to the component terminations. However, in our case, we did not see the pads turning a silver-white color...rather, they exhibited a tarnishing/darkening of the gold. We determined that we had som
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 30 08:11:22 EST 1998 | Derek Drabenstadt
Does anyone have any experience with fired-silver/platinum/palladium lead terminations soldering. I have had issues on nickel over gold plated boards but not with HASL'd boards with tin/lead pads. Is this the norm?
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 02 16:07:04 EDT 2008 | blnorman
Colorization is relatively uniform across the board. "Processing" is first pass reflow. I belive MacDermid is the ImmAg supplier. Plating thickness has not been determined, our XRF is being revitalized. Elemental analysis did show a large copper
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 23 10:24:24 EST 2001 | johnthor
We still build a legacy product with a primitive backplane using silver plated fork terminals for outside world connections. After some 20 years of no problems the fork terminals on raw stock PCBs were black and almost unsolderable. Because of the
