Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 19 09:01:00 EST 1998 | Dave F
| | | | | For some as yet unkown reason, we have started to have some boards sag and go under the wave. The boards are surface mount top side and conventional components wave soldered. We have checked the wave hight and both the profiles on the wave
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 19 09:32:52 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | | | | For some as yet unkown reason, we have started to have some boards sag and go under the wave. The boards are surface mount top side and conventional components wave soldered. We have checked the wave hight and both the profiles on the wav
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 19 09:55:47 EST 1998 | Dave F
| | | | | | | For some as yet unkown reason, we have started to have some boards sag and go under the wave. The boards are surface mount top side and conventional components wave soldered. We have checked the wave hight and both the profiles on the w
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 24 05:23:18 EST 2009 | prodivegsr
Hi Davef, Thanks...Saw 1 of your thread that you posted : Thanks for providing... From davef : There are many possibilities: * Conformal coat is incompatible with surface residue on the board * Conformal coat is incompatible with solder mask on the
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 16 19:05:57 EST 2002 | davidduke
Steve , I agree with all the responses you have received. Randy Villeneuve is absolutly correct in all of his assesments and I would consider him an expert with the process , Gris is correct about adding a "heat sink" to the process complicating pr
Electronics Forum | Thu May 26 08:52:42 EDT 2011 | davef
Phil Zarrow wrote a useful paper that could help in evaluating paste. Here read it ... Evaluating Solder Paste � Not An Option Contributed by Phil Zarrow of ITM an Independent SMT consulting firm With soldering being the dominant source of assembly
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 15 11:18:51 EST 2020 | avillaro2020
Hi Evtimov, Thanks again! The solder wicking/open solder joint is not actually gross rejection, it is only a few and appeared random (difficult to trend the location of the opens), what is perflexing is that i have this 1 or 2 open solder joints sur
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 17 19:23:05 EST 2023 | SMTA-64387083
Read the articles everyone else recommend. I haven't read of them but I will say this. A Solder Mask Defined pad is a copper flood that has much more thermal mass than a Non-Solder Mask Defined pad so it will heat and cool at a slower rate. I suspect
Electronics Forum | Sun Sep 13 19:56:21 EDT 2009 | 89jeong
Hi All I have a pig problem after reflow. It is a blister in hole.It happend after reflow(Lead free solder) I touched the blister with tweezer. The plating was lifted off easily How do i do? What is a root casue? Drilling or plating? Is it possible
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 09 11:20:24 EDT 1998 | Justin Medernach
| I am looking for a little enlightement with an issue that we have been seeing. We have printed curcuit board with multilayer and HAL finished. | After reflow soldering, we have often "blister phenomenon". | Our reflow profile is normal. Factory