Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 27 08:19:41 EDT 2011 | charliedci
We are in the process of changing over our wave solder flux from alcohol based no clean to VOC free water based no clean. We are running an old Eletrovert with foam fluxer, tin lead solder. After preliminary testing on scrap boards and now starting t
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 20 16:04:22 EDT 2000 | Bob Willis
Tin/silver/copper is the alloy I have done most with and it would seem that it will be the alloy of choice if you look at the people doing the work. There are still some issues of fillet lifting which I have seen on PIHR soldering and the same in wav
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 01 11:54:14 EST 2005 | TomA
Indy, I found the same findings as you. The claim is that the solder joint may actually look closer to a SnPb solder joint then the SAC alloys. I had commited to the SAC alloys at SMT before finding out about the SN100C alloy. I'm interested in what
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 01 12:52:19 EST 2005 | jbrower
Hi Tom, I did talk to Bob Gilbert about the sn100c. His comment is that it is a nickle stabalized alloy. Simplisticly, the tin and copper molecules would rather bond with the nickle. He also mentioned that with the SAC alloys, the manufactuers were
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 01 09:54:23 EST 2005 | jbrower
Hi Frank, we're still going to go with FR4 as our prefered material. Our board thickness is .062. We use an on shore and off shore vendor. Prototron I believe offers an immersion tin and excellence in china? offers an immersion tin finish. We fou
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 24 08:26:41 EST 2005 | GS
Thank you, very intersting. Seen they've experimented also Sn Cu Ni on wave solder. Rgards............GS
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 25 14:19:02 EDT 2014 | barryg
Hello everyone. I have a question pertaining to solder irons, tips and solder stations. We recently have set up our lead free wave and reflow oven. We still have quite a few projects that require leaded solder. I was curious how others handle rework
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 06 13:00:51 EST 2006 | amol_kane
Hi all, I just wave soldered 40 boards (20 if Imm Sn and 20 of Imm Ag) using SAC 305 (in this case the wave machine manufacturer (electrovert) suggested the alloy too). plan to carry out x-sectioning to see the results. overall, just from the visual
Electronics Forum | Sun Feb 05 08:41:15 EST 2006 | Cmiller
Are you refering to reflow soldering or wave soldering? Brian, do you have any data to support that SAC305 is more reliable than Tin-Copper-Nickel? NEMI reccomended SAC type alloys for reflow and Tin-Copper for wave. See: http://circuitsassembly.
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 07 13:39:42 EST 2006 | gregoryyork
You can use straight forward Tin/Copper but it flows very poorly so solderability is an issue. Dosing with Phos improves this but need to stay on top of it. We have supplied some 3.8%Ag alloys for flow they work well but you get a small 'chill point'
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