Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 14 04:16:55 EDT 2021 | mokshamanthra
Thanks DWL, we have a board with double sided SMT components now. and there is an intrusive component on the bottom side which is build first. the connector pin is extending out by 0.3mm and this is causing printing issues when building top side. we
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 27 08:02:55 EDT 2000 | Jason
Hello once again! I am having a problem with a 24 pin connector bridging on the wave. We use very similar connectors on other PCB with zero problems. This connector bridges in the same place on the same pins. It forms like a little block of four
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 10 13:26:40 EST 2012 | dyoungquist
We are using our selective solder machine to solder a backplane with sixteen (16) 4x48 pin 0.080" connectors. Our first pass yield is about 85% meaning that 85% of the connectors come out with no bridges. Not quite as fine pitch as your connector a
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 27 10:31:14 EST 2015 | dbrazel83
We have a surface mount connector from Hirose that has two through hole mounting pins on the side. The solder is wicking up the pins into the body of the connector during reflow, even with adjustments to the PCB solder mask which came directly direc
Electronics Forum | Sun Mar 25 15:38:07 EDT 2007 | Gibbon!
Couple of things. Type T thermocouples are solder friendly. However usually a header with screw terminals poses no problem as the temperature differential is nil. Getting thermocouple leads wet causes problems because two dissimilar metals + condu
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 26 00:22:26 EDT 2006 | YQ Deng
Through the pads of conncector(50pin) were printed full solder paste, the solder paste of about 2-5 pads follow to bottom of the connector 2-5 pins, the 2-5 pads outside of connector no any tin after reflow. Is this PCB problem? I can supply failur
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 11 11:59:00 EST 2012 | sarason
The issue is surface tension around the connector. Your tip needs to have more surface tension than the pins of the connector as it forms a cluster when being soldered. When I used to solder superfine connectors with a metcal iron it had a horses hoa
Electronics Forum | Fri May 31 09:13:12 EDT 2002 | russ
Jim, you are right in this. these connectors have long pins 1/2" or so that protrude through the board and are used for mating into a female connector on some other assembly. due to both length and "no solder allowed in contact area" criterias thes
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 06 22:59:02 EDT 2005 | smt_rookie
It is the solder ball that's usually encountered in a reflow process. It's just that, the paste did not wet well along the connector pins. Before reflow, the paste is actually at the tip of the connector, and stayed there and never went up to fill th
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 19 13:32:21 EDT 2013 | rgduval
In the past, I've used kapton tape for masking, as well as masking tape and solder mask as you've described. I've also used dummy connectors, or connector caps to cover connectors/pins. In the end, though, I'm not sure any of these methods decrea
