Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 16 18:11:19 EDT 2003 | Gabriele
Before entering the cleaner, the board should reach almost temperature of first pre-wash module (are you using DI water washing machine?), if water cleaner, normally the temp of prewash spry is set from 45 C� to 55 C�. (or it could be 10�C higher, bu
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 23 07:27:31 EDT 2008 | realchunks
Do not wipe the board at first before putting it in your cleaner. It will leave more paste in your tank, but you won't smear it into every corner of your solder resist. We found that only our stencil cleaner would clean a board properly and leave n
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 23 08:44:06 EDT 2003 | davef
So, steaming your boards in a box makes them cleaner? Never heard of that. What are you removing from your boards? The longer the conveyor in your washer, the faster you can run it, but then again it's longer. Consider that a saponifier or someth
Electronics Forum | Tue May 20 11:11:09 EDT 2008 | toddl
We use Envirogold for one of our customers boards. It is a fairly aggressive cleaner that works well on RMA fluxes. We have no complaints about its performance.
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 04 22:54:32 EDT 2002 | davef
Solder balls are one of the most popular topics here on SMTnet. Search the fine SMTnet Archives for background. We like to wash solder balls from the board in our cleaner.
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 27 11:20:55 EDT 2009 | davef
SMT-IRL: Run a bare board through your cleaner to confirm our suspicion. Let us know the results, please.
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 03 20:30:07 EST 2001 | Robert
James, if you want to get a circuit board wet, then any cleaner will do. Tighter componentry and BGAs are different. Even if you submerge a BGA, the surface underneath it will not be effected. Thus you need to force the chemistry mechanically unde
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 26 08:35:17 EDT 2006 | razor9114
Has anyone tested their water in their Aqueous Cleaner for the RoHS banned substances? If so who are you all using? One of customers is requesting that we validate there is no contamination of their boards as we use 1 cleaner to clean lead free boar
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 07 12:57:00 EDT 2010 | jrr3434
Thanks for the info mike. How well do these batch cleaners work with densely populated through hole boards that were solder with no clean flux? Is there a problem with water getting trapped under large capacitors? I'm using kester 959t for flux on b
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 03 08:39:09 EST 2008 | sys_steven
boards are polyimide, and it is an ipa rinse with the solvent cleaner.
