Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 07 13:15:06 EDT 2015 | markhoch
You can most certainly use the same reflow oven for both leaded and lead-free pastes. Obviously your thermal profiles will be different, as the lead-free paste should have a higher reflow temp. As long as your oven has adequate exhaust and flux manag
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 06 07:37:01 EDT 2015 | m_imtiaz
can we use same reflow oven for lead free and leaded solder paste, is there any chance of lead contamination in lead-free products.
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 20 10:00:25 EST 2015 | TM
Hello We are currently cleaning stencils from both process (PbSn and lead free) in the same cleaning machine. A customer is concerned about cross contamination of lead between stencils. Is there any test kit or tool that you can suggest to test the
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 08 17:49:05 EST 2013 | davef
First, it's a surprise that your failure analysis lab thought everything was OK with these boards. They look like shit. Second, a few years ago, there was a bunch of complaints about ENIG boards with issues similar to what you're observing. There wa
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 20 16:26:59 EST 2015 | emeto
There are a lot of lead testers out there. Just google it. I personally don't think you will find anything wrong, but for the pleasure of your customers buy one and prove it. I would also check the lead on the squeegees of your stencil printers and t
Electronics Forum | Thu May 18 09:52:09 EDT 2006 | russ
Guru, you are nothing but a liar, any respectable consulting firm would not use a name as Guru Expert. Also would not change from a contamination thread to all the BS you just threw out trying to impress with your vocabulary. One does not need to qu
Electronics Forum | Sun May 21 19:18:52 EDT 2006 | grantp
Hi, I think you should be ok, as the contamination in a reflow oven is generally flux from what I have seen. I have never heard to the solder metals itself being inside the oven apart from some paste in hole we did that sometimes dropped a bit of so
Electronics Forum | Tue May 16 07:32:05 EDT 2006 | aj
Contaminate your Leadfree Process with WHAT? What contamination are you concerned about? Its an oven - it doesnt care what you put in it... Your main concern is that you can achieve the desired Leadfree Profile...dont be confused or concerned whe
Electronics Forum | Mon May 15 11:03:13 EDT 2006 | Pitt Bull
Can lead free components/assemblies be contaminated if reflowed in a reflow oven for leaded process?
Electronics Forum | Thu May 18 10:42:41 EDT 2006 | stepheniii
I don't think so. But I want to point out the amount of lead needed to contaminate a joint is microscopic. You won't have lead vapour in your oven and with a clean oven there probably isn't any other way for even a microscopic amount of lead to con
