Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 14 10:46:48 EST 2011 | dyoungquist
Have you tried an ultrasonic water cleaning process? We use an ultrasonic cleaner with tap water and Omega Aqua Clean LPH cleaner (omegasonics.com) then rinse with DI water. However, our cleaning requirements are not as strict as yours are from the
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 22 17:32:34 EST 2004 | davef
Assemblers often assume that the board and component suppliers provide them with clean product. This was not a problem when everyone used water washable fluxes, because the water washing used to clean the flux residues also cleaned the board and com
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 12 18:48:49 EDT 2007 | mefloump
We seem to have an overwhelming amount of foam produced in the initial rinse portion of our wash (enough to cause it to overflow). We are using an Austin American Hydrojet Mach III Inline Cleaner. To my understanding the first rinse of the boards is
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 09 19:21:13 EST 1998 | Bill Schreiber
Dave, Be careful if you plan to clean misprinted PCBs in a spray type batch cleaner. There is an article written by Dick Clouthier of AMTX Stencils regarding batch cleaners and their use for cleaning misprints. He describes it as a "solder ball nig
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 28 09:24:17 EDT 2017 | jpepke468
A lot of our PCB's are being damaged by our water cleaner, it is a Steolting Triton, and I beleive it is due to the drying section in the machine. The air its blowing on the boards is flipping the boards around on the conveyor and smashing small deli
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 02 14:42:20 EST 2004 | fritschusa
Do you bake the boards after 30 minute submersion? Parts and boards are netoriously hydroscopic. What do you do to combat organcis in solution? How do you know your boards are "clean"? Clean is differnet things to different people. Just currious
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 15 18:42:57 EST 2005 | simmcircuits
Hi, Can anyone give me a bit of an advise or tip on how to reduce the flux residues on the board when it comes out of the wavesolder machine. The Vitronics Soltec 6622CC that we are using have been producing boards like this for years and people her
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 20 05:35:25 EDT 2000 | Keith Stone
Hi Pete We have a Black and Decker Power File and have mounted it on a bench in an enclosure to capture the hazardous dust. We used a hopper (usually used for guttering!) with a wire mesh over the top (static reasons) mounted in the bench top inside
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 06 10:55:37 EDT 2001 | davef
saturation occurs at ppm levels. Remember, IPA is extremely flammable and its bulk use makes the plant liable to all sorts of quite repressive safety rules/regulations and so on. Ignoring these rules exposes the owner to fines and possible plant cl
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 08 12:39:39 EST 2016 | deanm
We have a name brand aqueous batch cleaner that uses a chemical and DI water to clean ROL0 flux from our PCBs. It does ok most of the time for SMT boards and we want to include through hole assemblies as well which should be a better cleaning process
