Electronics Forum | Fri May 13 14:08:39 EDT 2011 | eezday
This appears to be black-pad and is often the result of using specs that call for gold plating that is too thick. The black pad is corrosion that is created between the gold and electroless nickel during the gold plating process. This is counter in
Electronics Forum | Mon May 14 12:44:08 EDT 2012 | tomgervascio
I am a user of an Ersa Versaflow 3/45. I was wondering if anyone could share some process pointers. I have a 0.125" multilayer PCB that I am having problems consistently achieving 75 percent hole fill on a mini-coax connector. The coax connector ha
Electronics Forum | Tue May 04 10:38:24 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| Does someone has experience with solder stop on components to avoid an Viking effect (no solder on the pad, all solder on the lead)? What kind of solder stop does work well? What is dangerous? What has to be kept in mind when using such components?
Electronics Forum | Thu May 26 08:52:42 EDT 2011 | davef
Phil Zarrow wrote a useful paper that could help in evaluating paste. Here read it ... Evaluating Solder Paste � Not An Option Contributed by Phil Zarrow of ITM an Independent SMT consulting firm With soldering being the dominant source of assembly
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 27 09:09:36 EST 2006 | davef
Silver on your copper or brass part is a solderability protection. The silver diffuses into the solder and you solder to the base metal, either the copper or brass in your case. Soldering to copper is well known. The issues are soldering to brass
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 14 14:05:55 EDT 2006 | nodlac
Additional to Dave F.... A potato has Iron @ 2.75mg and Magnesium @ 55mg. The leaching of these two meatls could contaminate the solder pot and taint the solder. ----------------------- Additional to my additional..THE SOLDER POT POTATO BATTERY...A p
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 27 09:38:30 EDT 2005 | Bob R.
What problems are the quality people seeing? I hope they aren't expecting a toe fillet. QFNs are typically cut from an array after plating. This leaves exposed copper on the sides of the part. We'll often see smearing from the sawing process that
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 27 06:42:37 EST 2006 | Slaine
What are the long term issues with high tin content solders on parts plated with silver over copper? Is it possible that the silver will be absorbed by the solder then over a long period of time the tin will react with the copper causing it to part
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 19 16:20:05 EDT 2016 | davef
Don't blame it on the poor paste thickness requirement [although I might go on to argue that it's could be a contributor to the issue]. Most likely you're the problem. About 70% of the time solder on gold fingers is caused by poor cleaning of screen
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 06 08:41:06 EDT 2005 | james
What I have seen too is that these parts normally come in a tube and from moving in the tube some of the copper starts to expose and solder will not adhere to these parts. Let me know if anyone else sees the same problem.
