Electronics Forum | Sat Apr 14 09:28:58 EDT 2007 | davef
When soldering a component to a board, the solderability protection on the component combines with the solderability protection on the board and the solder to form an alloy. This alloy is unique for that combination of solder and solderability protec
Electronics Forum | Tue May 12 01:09:17 EDT 2009 | malmsteen
Thanks for replying Mr BoardHOuse. The product has to be RohS compliance. Surface finished is something that I am still considering and currently looking at either OSP or Immesion Silver. In short whatever combination that can produce high reliabili
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 17 17:14:49 EST 1999 | Michael Allen
Another test to consider is dye penetrant analysis. The technique involves flooding the area beneath the soldered part with dye (preferably a bright color, like red). After drying the board+dye in an oven, you peel or torque the part off and inspec
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 20 13:29:44 EST 2006 | patrickbruneel
Great work Amol, Please keep us posted about the results of the x sectioning. I personally don't believe that the cracks are due to non-eutectic properties of SAC. Because the alloy is only 4�C off eutectic and when a solder joint exits the solder
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 09 10:12:43 EST 1998 | Justin Medernach
| Cold Welding | I'm presently doing a project on reflow profiling. | I came across this expression. Can someone please give me a definition. | Best Regards | Tom Mc Grath Tom, I think what you are referring to is also called cold solder. You have
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 13 07:53:40 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | Couple of questions. | | 1) Are we talking alumina substrates as the ceramic material? | | 2) Are we co-firing gold as the conductors on the substrate surface? | | 3) In other words, is this a hybrid thick film circuit? | | 4) If so, how large or
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 19 13:40:25 EDT 1998 | Terry Burnette
| Has anyone had experience with placing BGA on gold plated boards. I thought I read a while ago there was a problem with embrittlment causing cracked joints. If anyone has experience with this your feedback would be great. | Mike There has been a
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 17 03:55:45 EDT 1999 | Brian
| We have some SMT components with gold plated leads. They're actually LCC led packages. A good solder alloy to use would be Indium / Lead to reduce tin dissolution into the gold and avoid the resultant brittle intermetallic compound. However, a reco
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 07 07:52:15 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | Is there any problem using SMT on gold boards? 15 years ago we were told not to use gold boards, but I can't remember why. Judging by the other postings it now appears to be common. Only problem I see is that the nickel should be plated, not e
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 19 14:25:24 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | Has anyone had experience with placing BGA on gold plated boards. I thought I read a while ago there was a problem with embrittlment causing cracked joints. If anyone has experience with this your feedback would be great. | | Mike | There has b
