Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 17 13:36:17 EDT 2010 | hegemon
Since you have home plated the apts and done solder reduction, I would take a look at your soldering profile. We have run into this before when running no-clean and found that reducing the initial ramp rate to the flux activation was a help in the
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 17 06:01:12 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| | We have some SMT components with gold plated leads. They're actually LCC led packages. A good solder alloy to use would be Indium / Lead to reduce tin dissolution into the gold and avoid the resultant brittle intermetallic compound. However, a re
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 14 08:05:54 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | | I believe that gold fingers on my circuit boards are being | | | | contaminated and need to clean them with some chemical | | | | solution. Any recommendations. | | | | | | | Chuck: What is the type and source of your contamination? Dave
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 10 13:16:17 EDT 2000 | Bob Willis
Here is some thing that I wrote a while back on solder beading. First what is a Solder Bead? The term solder bead is used to differentiate it from solder balls. A solder bead is a solder ball but its location is normally constant unlike solder bal
Electronics Forum | Wed May 27 09:56:39 EDT 1998 | Chrys
| | | We recently made the switch to no-clean and the wurface mount is turning out beautifully. However, the wave solder process continues to put up a fight; we are getting a white residue on the surface of the PCB. The residue is not localize
Electronics Forum | Wed May 27 15:09:30 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| | | | We recently made the switch to no-clean and the wurface mount is turning out beautifully. However, the wave solder process continues to put up a fight; we are getting a white residue on the surface of the PCB. The residue is not locali
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 07 11:02:07 EDT 2010 | davef
Rob gave you very good analysis and suggestions for troubleshooting your non-wetting issue. We agree with his sequence of troubleshooting. The following comments are meant to be a line to supplement Rob's plan of attack. This adds to Rob's comment
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 21 22:10:07 EDT 2003 | adlsmt
Well, for some reason the board house will pay for the boards but has some issue with paying for the parts on them. Why am I not supprised? Perhaps I have mis-diagnosed the problem. We have found two different board p/n's with the same type of defec
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 30 07:44:12 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | | | We are having some problems with "drawbridging" on 0805 film capacitors. | | | | We have already reduced the pad width from .050" to .040" based on input | | | | from vendor. Defects appear to be random as far as location on the PWB and d
Electronics Forum | Wed May 08 23:48:01 EDT 2002 | ianchan
Hi mates, someone told us to use mild HCL acid 5% to 10% solution and submerge the LCC parts into this solution. hopefully this will clean off the varient copper oxide layer on the LCC leadless terminal wall. after the HCL soak, submerge the parts