Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 07 00:28:59 EDT 1999 | Scott Cook
| 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. John, It depends......mainly on the via size. Tenting works on smaller vias. Tent
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 07 13:41:42 EDT 1999 | Dave F
snip | | If you go for plugging be sure you have a protrusion spec that you can live with. This often results in little bumps of epoxy that can interfere with component placement. For us, tenting .015 vias usually gets us about 80% coverage from
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 17 14:30:42 EST 2004 | Dreamsniper
I goy this issue: Voids in almost every ball of my BGA's prcessed since we changed our BGA via tenting to double tenting. The tenting is done with a dry film application to fill the via from the solder side then apply LPI Mask on the surface of the
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 17 14:31:52 EST 2004 | Dreamsniper
I got this issue: Voids in almost every ball of my BGA's processed since we changed our BGA via tenting to double tenting. The tenting is done with a dry film application to fill the via from the solder side then apply LPI Mask on the surface of the
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 01 18:11:43 EST 2006 | Chris
I wonder if they are concerned about getting chemicals trapped in the tented vias. If the tented vias have pin hole openings or even larger openings, chemicals from the ENIG process could become entrapped in the via holes and not washed away in the
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 13 06:11:08 EST 2006 | Rob
Surely this is a job for Wavemaster Larry? Have you tried flux buster pins in your ICT yet? They are quite good at cutting through the crap on a board.
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 27 12:44:52 EDT 2000 | Ashok Dhawan
What could be possible resons for " Plating Crack on Barrel (tented via)" This tented via is in proximity to parts being hand soldered. The crack in barrel was detected on failure analysis - micro-section of via where barrel is having crack ( circul
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 07 08:48:55 EST 2006 | samir
Our ICT Guy here at my company loves to use lots of via holes as test points - via holes which are 0.040" diameter, and spaced at 0.004" edge to edge spacing! He doesn't like to tent the via's either, so I always battle via-to-via shorts at the wave
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 18 10:18:22 EDT 1998 | Dave Hulbert
I have a question on tenting of vias on PWB's. I have designed a 6 >layer, military, mixed components (all on top side), LPI soldermask >board which will be run over the wave. I was planning on tenting vias >but did not specifically specify that on f
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 31 14:03:41 EDT 1998 | Bill Childs
I have a question on tenting of vias on PWB's. I have designed a 6 | >layer, military, mixed components (all on top side), LPI soldermask | >board which will be run over the wave. I was planning on tenting vias | >but did not specifically specify tha
