Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 09 10:45:56 EST 2015 | huske
I've put down a SOT223, close enough to your 3pin transistor, in the same situation you have. The large pin was to be soldered on a large exposed ground plane in the corner of a board, over 2"x2" exposed area. We left the paste file as is, so where
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 07 14:55:41 EST 2015 | clydestrum
So I have an issue coming up that I'm not too sure how to handle. A board was designed with the wrong footprint for a 3-lead transistor in which the single-lead side has a much larger (think thermal pad for qfn) copper land than what is meant for the
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 28 15:10:50 EST 2006 | M. Sanders
Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of IPC-A-610 D on hand, however, I believe in IPC-610, this �floating height� between lead and pad has no maximum specification restriction. As long as there is no voiding, it is still acceptable for all 3 classes.
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 28 08:37:52 EDT 2007 | davef
There is no good choice. Board Finishes: Industrial/Battelle Class 3 Environment [Reliability Knowledge Gaps: For use of Pb-free solders in High Reliability Applications, J Smetana, iNEMI Availability of SnPb-Compatible BGAs Workshop, March 1, 2007,
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 28 11:16:45 EDT 1999 | Steve Gregory
Hello all, I read about Steve's headache a few articles back and I'm really interested by his tip. However, I'm still wondering why square apertures release solder paste better than round ones. For the same volume of paste, the surface area of th
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 28 12:18:04 EDT 1999 | Scott McKee
| Hello all, | | I read about Steve's headache a few articles back and I'm really interested by his tip. However, I'm still wondering why square apertures release solder paste better than round ones. For the same volume of paste, the surface area
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 13 09:36:18 EST 2007 | rgduval
From a manufacturing standpoint, this isn't very nice. Vias will tend to wick solder away from the pad, resulting in insuficient solder joints, which require touch-up. The amount of times any solder joint is reheated should be minimized, as extra h
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 23 16:32:05 EST 2007 | davef
There a several things you can do to prevent the solder wicking down the hole with the current design, and that's where you should focus. Cost goes up as you go down the list, but in neither case do you need to respin the board, have solder starvatio
Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 10 09:04:47 EST 2015 | jandon
class 3 requires 100% barrel fill Class 3 requires 75% vertical fill of solder for component with less or more than 14 leads. Not 100% fill.
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 25 20:50:50 EDT 2021 | stephendo
A couple more things. The PCB. What size are the pads? One time a board shop had difficulty putting masking between the pads of a QFP and the pads suffered as a result. When I told them they didn't have to have masking between the pads, the pads w