Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 28 20:03:33 EST 2001 | Rob Fischer
This is brutal. I think we should call a truce. Mike has very good points and his quotations from the EPA letter are fact. If there isn't a competitor of Bill's who hasn't seen this letter I'd be surprised. We could go on and on about this and th
Electronics Forum | Thu May 24 16:45:57 EDT 2001 | kmorris
Hi All: We�ve got a problem here with opens on bottom side wave soldered SOT23s. Based on past experience and review of the SMTnet archives, I feel that our main problem is pad size. We have the same size pads for bottom side SOT23s as we have for
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 18 13:29:34 EDT 2001 | nifhail
What is the recommanded profile for board which consist of 0402 & 0201 comps. to reduce the effect of tomb-stone. Slow ramp rate ? how slow is considered as slow. Soak time 60 or 120 C,at which end should I stick to? what is the best time before reac
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 12 10:32:59 EDT 2001 | Hussman
Wow, what a string of answers and nobody brought up the easiest way to eliminate solder balls. Yes, the paste being squished under the part does reflow and work it's way out to the side during reflow. I did a 5 week study on this (when I was a bori
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 09 21:33:32 EST 2000 | Dave F
Ashok: I have three answers to your questions on moisture sensitive devices: 1. What is general practice on incoming / receiving inspection of moisture sensitive devices- which boils down to mostly FPDs and BGAs ? Traditionally, FPD packs were opene
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 01 07:50:25 EST 2000 | Jason Bentley
This all depends on the mixture of your solder. If you are using water soluable flux then it will get clean. But not alcohol based flux. As for using the ultrasonic this might be a problem I personally have never heard of someone washing a board in a
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 31 14:08:26 EST 2000 | Ashok Dhawan
I have got a number of assemblies back from a customer with feedback that the solder fillet is less than 25% of chip height per IPC-Standard-610B Class 2. Most of my joints are having good wetting but fillet height does not meet min ht requirement of
Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 08 11:12:49 EST 2000 | S. Evers
Hi all, Best Thing Since Sliced Bread? No doubt many of you have seen Phil Zarrow's "over-the-top" review in Circuits Assembly of the new Ersa scope, a device that allows viewing a really neat close up a side view of the component substrate interface
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 14 17:02:04 EST 1999 | John Thorup
Hello Kris If you do have and OSP coating I'd say Curtis has nailed it. But you seem to have references to gold. Does this board have a standard nickle/gold finish. If so what sort of "solder on gold" problems were you having? Reading between the
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 16 16:46:47 EST 1999 | Mike Naddra
Steve , I use a general set of guidlines when developing reflow profiles: Ramp rate to 140 deg C - 50-60 seconds Time at preheat (140-160 deg C) - 90-120 sec Time above liquidous (183 deg C) - 45-90 sec Time at peak (215-225 deg C) - 9-12 sec peak t