Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 11 20:33:25 EDT 2000 | Dave F
What does a section of the through hole look like? Is you fab using a dull drill and plating over the fibers? Good luck
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 10 05:03:58 EST 2002 | praveen
We are having solder fillet finish issue. The solder looks like rough solder on the connector leads .The plating of the leads is Nickel (99.9% purity) and the PCB plating is imersion gold. I have tried fine tuning my reflow profiles an have used N2 i
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 22 12:32:16 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| Folk's, | I'm in need of some help / direction. I'm working on my thesis for a masters based on looking at the effect's of the solder resist promoting / reducing the amount of solder ball's during wave. I'm looking at thing's like colour, texture,
Electronics Forum | Tue May 19 10:23:06 EDT 1998 | Mike C
| Howdy Richard, | Welcome to the club! I now dub thee a full fledged member of the "Spotty Gold Finger and Bleeding Ulcer Society"...or SGFBUS for short... (GRIN) | I know it's not funny to be in that position, but there's so many different places t
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 29 14:16:16 EDT 2011 | ppcbs
Below is the long explanation. This defect is most commonly found with BGA components, but can arrise with all components. I see it happening more now with lead free boards that are being assembled with a no clean flux. Best short term remedy is t
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 17 11:55:31 EDT 2001 | davef
5uin. Your nickel thickness is fine. Although if you wanted to trade costs, consider giving-up nickel to 150uin thickness, while increasing the gold thickness. Gold over electroless nickel creates brittle joints because of phosphorous in the nicke
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 07 15:25:04 EDT 2012 | joeherz
It looks like the inside of the barrels on these holes are not plated. Check some raw PCBs and see. If not, solder isn't going to flow to the top or make anything resembling a good solder joint.
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 04 09:20:55 EDT 1999 | HST-SE
Al, We make stencils, and I was personally involved at AMTX when the electroformed process was developed. Some of this will sound like an ad, but everyone has been volunteering vendors and so look at this as a suggestion. Electroforming is an addit
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 03 23:40:26 EST 1999 | Chris G.
| Does anyone know if I will have problems soldering surface mount components to an all hard gold plated PC board. We want to use hard gold similar to gold used for edge fingers because our customer is concerned about wear and conductivity of connect
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 19 16:13:00 EDT 2010 | davef
The aluminum material is typically plated by a zincation process, followed by nickel plate and a gold flash layer. What do the soldered side of the component and the soldered side of the aluminum coin look like? Do they both take solder?
