Electronics Forum | Sun Sep 07 13:33:50 EDT 2014 | horchak
Edri PCBA design and pad geometry is one of the critical factors for BGAs. Typically the pad size for collapsible balls is 80% of the ball diameter. Pad size consistency is critical. In your situation what will happen the larger pads will wick the s
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 15 08:03:36 EDT 1999 | Mark Quealy
| | I am trying to solder a 388 ball BGA to an Andon Electronics Corp. BGA socket adapter and I am having problems in the reflow of this part. I put no clean paste flux in the solder cups of the adapter then put the BGA part onto the adapter and run
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 17 20:48:14 EST 2001 | davef
We find that the raw BGA's pad sheared surface has the SnPb solder at various Z heights whereas the assembled BGAs pad leave a smooth layer of SnPb along the pad. Like to understand the cause for the difference. Who could guess? Solder joint streng
Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 14 06:38:04 EST 2006 | DannyJ
Hi Ken, Good question, and I did search for what you are asking, but unable to find anything conclusive about using tacky flux vs. solder. In reliability, it depends on which section of the process you are talking about. Mainly (and there are sev
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 29 11:11:29 EST 2001 | Casey Scheu
The solder ball collapse is associated with overheating. Of coarse there's no problem taking it off, your nuking it. The problem, as your aware, is in the replacement. The machine your using is overdriving the process. The key to this repair is in
Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 08 11:12:49 EST 2000 | S. Evers
Hi all, Best Thing Since Sliced Bread? No doubt many of you have seen Phil Zarrow's "over-the-top" review in Circuits Assembly of the new Ersa scope, a device that allows viewing a really neat close up a side view of the component substrate interface
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 01 07:32:33 EST 2006 | davef
What you have run up against is the unfortunate consequence of the transition period from Sn-Pb to Pb-free. In the past 2-3 years there have been several studies highlighting the differences in reliability between mixed metal systems, Sn/Pb, and SAC
Electronics Forum | Sun Mar 12 01:58:44 EST 2006 | grantp
Hi, We have been soldering lead free BGA's onto products with lead based paste, and we have had no increase in defects at all. We have used a standard lead paste profile, so we are not altering the temps anything from what's recommended by the paste
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 11 22:47:31 EST 2006 | davef
We didn't intend to light anyone's fur on fire [get anyone's underwear in a knot, roil the waters, have a cow man] about consultants. The Phil Zarrow wrote a useful paper that could help in evaluating paste. Here read it ... Evaluating Solder Paste
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