Electronics Forum | Thu May 29 14:35:37 EDT 2008 | rdmundo
Gents, We've been using a round 1:1 aperture for a 5 mils thickness on our stencil design on 0402 and recently, IPC guidelines recommend oblong, homeplate or reverse homeplate. I believed the PCB pad for 0402's area within the recommended size/dimen
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 02 10:52:45 EDT 2009 | dyoungquist
For 0402s we use type 3 paste. We have .006 and .005 stencils. The .006 works okay but .005 seems to give us slightly better results. We use a 1:1 ratio for the aperture to match the pad, round pad not needed. With accurate placement and a correc
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 14 18:37:18 EDT 2005 | GS
On top to above suggestions,Round pad designe (where possible to get) helps to solve tombstoning pbm. Regards GS
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 12 09:50:51 EDT 2007 | pjc
There have been many designs of apertures for 0402, round, home plate, inverted home plate and various reduction amounts for square or rectangular apertures. What works best for a given application depends on PCB design, solder land finish, stencil t
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 14 11:16:45 EST 2005 | Dan Gosselin
I have heard of people using a round pad or Home plate design to decrease the incidence of tombstoning on 0402's Anyone have any practical experience on this or is everyone just using the IPC 782 recommended land pattern (28mil x 33mil rectangle pad
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 30 15:07:40 EDT 2008 | jemills
Hello I have a new 0402 pad design on a recent board were building in future. On closer look i thought the pad was a thru hole mount , but upon closer inspection the round pads are for 0402 comps. I had a discussion with the engineer and he said
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 01 06:45:36 EDT 1999 | JAX
| Hi, | | We are running 0402 component on the TCM1000 and we find that teher will be missalignment on 0402 Capositor. We have identified that the missalignment is caused by the wrong information from the vision system while doing vision centering.
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 01 07:25:05 EDT 1999 | Wolfgang Busko
| | Hi, | | | | We are running 0402 component on the TCM1000 and we find that teher will be missalignment on 0402 Capositor. We have identified that the missalignment is caused by the wrong information from the vision system while doing vision cente
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 25 23:37:11 EDT 2001 | mugen
my guys SOP : Round #1 1) take double-side tape, and peel it flat to the PCB. 2) process this PCB only through P&P SMT. 3) confirm the SMD placement Round #2 4) take thin plastic sheet and tape corners flat to the PCB. 5) solder paste print over t
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 25 23:35:18 EDT 2001 | mugen
my guys SOP : Round #1 1) take double-side tape, and peel it flat to the PCB. 2) process this PCB only through P&P SMT. 3) confirm the SMD placement Round #2 4) take thin plastic sheet and tape corners flat to the PCB. 5) solder paste print over t