Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 10 02:38:36 EDT 2016 | zxcvb
I guess I've been somewhat ignorant when it comes to the finer details of pcb layout. Lately I've read a couple of books that try their best to lead me on the straight and narrow. Here is a couple of examples of a recent board of mine, and I have hig
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 22 22:56:44 EDT 2004 | davef
Talk to 10 people and you get 10 recommendations for pad layout. So far, here's number 3 [after IPC and AVX]. We suggest: * Use the IPC recommended standard. * Change from that standard when someone gives you a documented reason to change.
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 08 12:52:57 EDT 2003 | davef
So, if you give your customers design guidelines and one their products causes a cataclysmic explosion, resulting in the deaths and disfigurement of many handicaped third-world children, could a lawyer consider you responsible? Spec Fir Tree General
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 01 11:18:47 EST 2003 | cyber_wolf
Is anyone out there successfully screen-printing SMD adhesive on an 0402 layout? We have successfully done 0603 and larger, but the deposition consistency on the 0402's is just not there. We don't always get enough epoxy on the board. We have tried a
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 24 12:56:26 EDT 2014 | jmathis
Hello, As our company has begun doing an increase production of contract manufacturing I have seen more and more designs with the 0402 pad layouts that are smaller (.015 in width) than the component. Also there is only a .008 longer than the 0402 p
Electronics Forum | Thu May 24 16:45:57 EDT 2001 | kmorris
Hi All: We�ve got a problem here with opens on bottom side wave soldered SOT23s. Based on past experience and review of the SMTnet archives, I feel that our main problem is pad size. We have the same size pads for bottom side SOT23s as we have for
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 11 14:25:36 EDT 2001 | CPI
I had the very same problem but, did not question my oven as I knew the profile was good and I should have had even heating. So I then looked at pad size and layout. When Layout and size were found to be ok. I attached a prob to each pad and ran a pr
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 10 20:06:43 EST 2007 | SSS
I've been assembling thousands of boards for dozens of customers over the past 5 years with 0402 chip components. 85% can happen very easily even with newer equipment. Defect challanges with 0402 packages is almost always tombstoning. Capacitors abou
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 12 21:33:27 EDT 2000 | Micah Newcomb
Billy and Chris have a good point, pad size and geometry will affect proper aperture size and geometry and could result in tombstoning. Also I have seen chips which require special pastes but I have never found this to be the cause of tombstoning, in
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 13 11:27:25 EDT 2002 | davef
>*Changing paste >EricD: Yes we are considering that as a point. Because I believe the paste we are using are in syringe packaged and designed for dispensing. We are using an Indium SMQ75 paste and current application naturally is stencil printing.
