Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 21 11:22:21 EST 2000 | K. Ckak
Hi Kurt, I agree with Dave F. I had exact same problem with PBGA placement. We requested our PCB vendor to plug/tent via (button printing) after HASL with SR1000 which worked well in the long run. There are couple of failure modes associated wit
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 21 11:22:21 EST 2000 | K. Ckak
Hi Kurt, I agree with Dave F. I had exact same problem with PBGA placement. We requested our PCB vendor to plug/tent via (button printing) after HASL with SR1000 which worked well in the long run. There are couple of failure modes associated wit
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 06 19:38:01 EDT 1999 | John
Q #1) Is it more reliable to have the mask tent over the vias or risk getting vias half filled with solder? These are vias with an .020" hole and .040" or .050" pad. Q #2) When speaking of annular rings, I have always thought of them as minimums. Su
Electronics Forum | Sun Jan 09 19:37:15 EST 2005 | Bob R.
I'm just thinking out loud here with no experience to back it up, but I could see where you're trapping air or solvent filled voids inside the via by tenting from both sides. When you go through a heat cycle like reflow or wave solder you could be e
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 26 21:44:43 EST 2005 | mika
My enlgish & gramma is not that good, but perhaps You will understand me? We all know that the way we handle the MSD (Moisture Sensitive Devices) are crucial. We have been through this in a lot of other postings; but I feel there could be some remai
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 22 16:49:44 EST 2008 | pms
Steve, Trying to keep wave solder from coming up the via' from the bottom and adhering to the via's and via's pads during wave. We use WS flux thru-out the whole process. I have been concerned about possible flux intrapment in the via's. That's a g
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 16 09:33:09 EST 2000 | Kurt Waskow
Interested in information regarding PCB soldermask tenting over vias within a BGA layout. Is this a common practice to reduce the occurrence of shorts, are there any reliability concerns? Thanks!
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 21 08:33:53 EST 2000 | Tony Di Mauro
Kurt, When I was working in a captive manufacturing house we had been to migrate toward tenting all vias under the BGA to eliminate not only shorts but insufficient (Starved) joints. Tony
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 27 19:37:32 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Wolfgang is correct. Copper plating thickness of the via barrel walls is a key question you need to answer to troubleshoot this. Tenting is a red herring.
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 16 09:33:09 EST 2000 | Kurt Waskow
Interested in information regarding PCB soldermask tenting over vias within a BGA layout. Is this a common practice to reduce the occurrence of shorts, are there any reliability concerns? Thanks!
