Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 25 03:52:24 EDT 2012 | awtm
Our Customer had detected tarnished pad on ImAg PCBA and had conducted several SEM-EDX test at the soldermask below some of the chip resistors. High concentration of sulfur was found and it can be significantly reduced after further chemical cleaned
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 09 18:36:48 EDT 2010 | rway
We don't use flex pcbs but have the same issue here. Most of our pcbs are HASL finish. I have looked at silver and gold immersion and both look really good under my color camera on my AOI. However, gold is more pricey. There is no additional cost
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 02 14:02:49 EDT 2004 | russ
Frank, We are currently running lead free for approximately 1 yr. now but no where near the volumes you have mentioned. We are about 5k units per month. I personally am in agreement with you as far as OSP. I also do not like white tin finish since
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 23 17:59:54 EDT 2010 | hegemon
Therein lies the issue. Unknown storage conditions before we received the PCBs, date codes just expired (2 weeks), first article is de-lam city! Had a bad feeling about it. Have read some studies showing that there is no linear tie in of visual cha
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