Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 11 15:23:31 EDT 2003 | Peter L.
I have come across a rash of failed assemblies that have 0805 capacitors and resistors, bottom side glued, wave soldered and washed. Trouble shooter reported touching up the solder joints on a few areas and the boards would pass test. I had a look a
Electronics Forum | Sun Dec 03 15:35:44 EST 2000 | Michael Nguyen
Wow. And I thought I was the only one having problem with ceramic capacitors.I too am having problem with cracking ceramic capacitors 1206 package.We changed vendors and still having the same problem. I had to reverify my entire process and I had to
Electronics Forum | Wed May 09 13:11:22 EDT 2001 | zam_bri
Hi.. Recently, I have received a few reels of 0402 with an old date code ( but still less than 2 years old).I don't have a capability in-house to carry out the solderability test except for the dipping test ( dip the components in the molten solder
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 31 23:02:19 EST 1997 | Scott McKee
| Has anyone had any experience with thermal shocking | and cracking of SMD capacitors during the rework process? | My company was advised to preheat capacitors to 125 C | at a rate of 2 C/sec before replacing them onto boards. | Would this maybe
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 19 10:47:47 EST 2019 | rgduval
I'm with Steve. Check the datasheet, and make sure that the terminations are meant for solder application, and not conductive epoxy. I had that happen a year or so ago with an MLCC. Drove us nuts for two days (not to mention the significant rework
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 29 16:21:20 EDT 2011 | rjlasko
Greetings...I have a customer that has an assembly that is conformal coated with Humiseal 1A33. This assembly has some components (resistors and FET's) that heated up during operation and has discolored the conformal coating around their location.
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 06 07:42:48 EST 2006 | davef
Epoxy inks tend to be more resistant to discoloration than the acrylics that are used more widely now. The acrylic-based inks vary in their ability to maintain color after heat cycles. The technical data sheets from the ink supplier should indicate:
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 19 10:43:28 EST 2007 | jimmyjames
You guys are all joking right?! There aren't any contaminates in your solder, the different colors on the surface are completely normal and even expected. The top layer of solder oxidizes and the structure of the surface resembles crystals, refract
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 31 16:56:11 EDT 2007 | glenearl
Has anyone ever looked into the possibility for laser marking 1812 size X7R ceramic chip capacitors injecting sufficient energy to cause cracking when voltage is applied? If so, what were the findings? We are having failures of caps from one manufa
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 22 18:07:38 EDT 1999 | Tom B.
| On various PCB's after building processes,such as reflow, flowsolder and wash. The soldermask on the PCB's have become discoloured, like a 'marble' effect all along the solder side of the board, it is lighter in contrast than normal, although when
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