Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 27 10:07:18 EDT 2007 | rgduval
Our preference has been ENIG. We find that we achieve higher quality (visually) soldering for through hole and surface mount parts, with less handling issues than when we use white-tin, or immersion tin. We are about to do a test on some boards tha
Electronics Forum | Thu May 29 18:58:41 EDT 2003 | davef
Lead free solder is bad for the environment, while increasing product costs. The US looked at restricting lead use a few years ago, took no action, and has no plans to enact frivolous legislation like the "greens" have foisted upon the Eurolanders a
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 27 09:31:10 EST 2006 | Slaine
on sections ive looked at with 7 microns of silver and 4microns of copper, the silver had been totally absorbed into the solder in most places and a large amount in some places all the copper as well, so i think the answer is that to provide long ter
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 | 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 | Sat Jun 24 07:34:03 EDT 2017 | tch
We bought a new lead free wave from Electrovert about a year ago and opted to not have the nitrogen options installed on this machine. We could not justify the cost of the nitrogen used versus the benefits that we would see. One downfall is that you
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 22 10:33:03 EDT 2017 | charliedci
We are changing /adding a lead free wave. This will either be a conversion of a leaded wave or a new purchase. Nitrogen seems to be a necessity in selective soldering lead free, should I presume the same for a wave process? I am interested in first h
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 24 07:23:06 EDT 2017 | tch
You will need to preheat the boards for a lead free selective solder process. A preheat module is critical for any wave or selective solder process, if you don't get the board preheated properly the solder is going to resist flowing to the top of the
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 06 07:34:43 EDT 2003 | johnw
Rick, my understanding is that the US do not have plan's fr lead free legislation. However the European legislation states that any product entering the european market after June 2006 must meet the lead free std's of the directive. So basically if
Electronics Forum | Fri May 12 14:35:58 EDT 2006 | patrickbruneel
Steve, You're asking the right questions, don�t listen to sales pitch and stick with the facts. But you're in for a tough ride with lead-free because there is just not enough data and experience with the lead-free alloys as of yet. Every month you h
