Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 25 18:45:19 EST 2000 | Ashok Dhawan
I am getting black spots / stuff while I run gold finish PCB through reflow soldering process using NC solder paste.The affected spots have intermetalic as black in color. Does not solder very well. I did look at the archieve but could not find info
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 28 21:07:44 EST 2000 | Alvin K
Gold is porous and spots on gold plated PCBs is one of the drawbacks of using gold as a solderability protector. Base Nickel exposure seems to be the cause of this and is aggravated when the gold thickness is less than what it should be. I agree with
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 14 08:28:15 EST 1998 | Allison
Contact your solder paste manufacturer and get the reflow profile recommended for that particular paste. Then, duplicate that reflow profile on your oven. You will need to use thermocouples. You may have to tweak this profile a little. | We use no
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 13 13:17:00 EST 1998 | Matt Brown
| We use no clean paste and sometimes experience | flux splattering which gives spot on gold fingers. | Need help in analize the cause. thx. Most often, the 'splattering' is caused by an excessive temperature in the oven: this can cause the solder p
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 19 20:01:11 EST 1998 | Steve Gregory
| We use no clean paste and sometimes experience | flux splattering which gives spot on gold fingers. | Need help in analize the cause. thx. Dominic, That is STILL a problem huh? It's a tough one to solve sometimes...especially when you have as
Electronics Forum | Wed May 26 18:04:16 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| After reflow proces in convection-IR oven we find broken body of SOT23 elements. There is no problems on other elements (SOIC, chip R,chip C, etc) | Where is the problem? | | Thanks in advance! | Check your profile at the site of cracked component
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 17 03:27:20 EST 2000 | Wolfgang Busko
Darren: Do you know what these residues are ? How clean is your solderbath ? How often during a day do you clean it ? My first impression is that you deal with oxides. M2C Wolfgang
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 30 04:42:28 EST 2000 | cpgoh
HI all, thanks for the advise.. Electrovert is being used from 7am to 7pm and we do dedross from the surface of the solder bath during lunch time around 12nn. Break Time we just sweep them to the side.. Every two week, we do the solder bath maintena
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 29 09:47:40 EDT 2003 | davef
We agree with Russ and Ioan that rework does not cause black pad. It's caused during the board fabrication process. On the other hand, we think: * Mantis wants to reduce the amount of reworking of boards that fail due to a black pad problem. *
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 30 23:45:20 EST 1998 | Kallol Chakraborty
Hi folks , Lately we are seeing a lot of rawcards with black spots on the pads - most of them have Au finish(immersion gold) . We did a lot of inspecton after wave solder and found that only (fine pitch) QFP are affected the most. Our inspection /te
