Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 23 05:14:40 EDT 2004 | greg york
Hi Thomas Ever considered that this maybe HASL flux left on PCB as this is extremely hygroscopic and has heat transfer fluids that cannot be baked out unless you go to a temperature of around 600C. One way of testing is to leave iron tip on joint an
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 27 00:45:35 EDT 2003 | kenBliss
Bman Each area and process has a unique machine for a reason. Professional engineers at the various OEM�s have thought these things through and there are specific reasons why you don't wash stencils in a board washer, bake pizzas in your reflow ove
Electronics Forum | Wed May 05 12:00:35 EDT 2010 | jrr3434
Thanks for the info! What's a good type of oven for baking boards in?
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 04 21:03:22 EST 2010 | cman
1) I'm not familiar with the acronym CAF. Could you spell that one out for me? 2)Why do you feel they need to be baked? Are they in a high humidity enviornment? the only time we bake is when we are dealing with moisture sensitive components. Do you b
Electronics Forum | Mon May 24 19:24:35 EDT 2010 | jry74
We bake all of our boards at 220 degrees F for two hours. This bakes out all the moisture. Blow off the parts prior to placing in the oven.
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 26 13:13:07 EST 2009 | rgduval
We've had this same problem with the solder wicking to the component terminations. However, in our case, we did not see the pads turning a silver-white color...rather, they exhibited a tarnishing/darkening of the gold. We determined that we had som
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 30 17:16:59 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| Hello Netters, | | I have a customer who wants us to aquaeos wash a PCB after all operations have been performed. The PWB is two layer FR4 with a Transformer, a Multichip Module with Conformal Coating, (6) 11" insulated wires that are tinned on e
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 25 21:01:45 EDT 1998 | Peter
We use an Intermec 3240 Thermal transfer printer and print on polyimid label material that survives the reflow and wave solder (top side only) process without turning black. Labels run around 3-4 cents per depending on the size (We found Imtec label
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 30 18:02:53 EDT 1999 | Mark
| What is the best way to re-ball a BGA? Who has the best system for doing it? | To RE-Ball an IC you must re-BALL the IC! The idea of using a stencil to deposit all of the appropriate solder mass can not work. Here is the process (minus the app
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 09 09:46:31 EST 2008 | lazzara55
SMT-ypw: Do you have information about IPC D-35 for reference? B3: The D-35 is a subcommittee responsible for developing industry guidelines on the proper handling, shipping and storage of printed boards and printed board assemblies. Moisture is a ma
