Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 14 20:49:32 EDT 2006 | davef
We too do not use ENIG. Too expensive and risky. Implementing a Simple Corrosion Test Method to Detect "Black Pad" Phenomenon in Electroless Nickel/Immersion Gold Plating ; BabHui Lee; Circuitree 11/1/03 http://www.circuitree.com/CDA/Archives/34f2b
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 15 17:36:26 EDT 2015 | mikekeens
From my experience Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold or ENIG finish gives the best results but does cost more than other available finishes. It has good solderabilty, good shelf life and is flat. Details of other available PCB surface finishes can
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 21 01:32:49 EST 2017 | soldertraining
Looking for advice on soldering lead free paste to a board with very heavy gold plating, In my opinion, Gold contact surfaces are often used on circuit boards with membrane switches which is a choice of technology for industrial, commercial and consu
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 16 03:38:03 EST 2018 | premkumar_haribabu
Hi all, We have to solder a nickel tabs ( coming in SMT reels ) in to HASL PCB finish pads using refow oven & during this we facing poor wetting issues, more voids & we done pull strenth , its came out with in 1 kg ,I doubt that nickel coated materi
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 18:07:25 EST 2006 | Chris
Flash gold is just thin gold plating over electroless nickel or electrolytic nickel. Flash gold is electrolytic gold where the panel is connected to a plating rectifier and current causes the plating process to occur. Gold thickness is controlled b
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 17 10:17:10 EDT 2001 | genny
Hi, ENIG finish is the same reason I came to this forum for the first time a few months ago. I found a bunch of useful information by searching the archives. Check it out. ENIG has some good properties like flatness, and the process control has i
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 15 21:29:34 EST 2004 | davef
We�d say that it�s incorrect that ENIG solderability protection cannot be steam aged. It�s true the immersion tin and silver cannot be steam aged. We believe that most of the issues surrounding the poor performance of ENIG after steam aging is attr
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 10 14:14:03 EDT 2008 | gregoryyork
Yes why did the Electroless Nickel layer split this is the ROOT cause. My guess is still that the resist was slightly miss registered over the copper and therefore poor adhesion of the Nickel ensued OR like I said originally the resist had contaminat
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 01 11:19:50 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| I'm having a problem getting good reflow on gold sufaced boards. The profile looks good and I have adjusted it both hotter and colder and adjusted the various times ( soak, reflow ) to no avail. What realy gets me Is that a month ago we built some
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 12 07:37:13 EST 2002 | davef
Immersion plating appears like electroless, sorta, but is different chemically. Plating is converting metal ions in solution to metal on the board. Those metal ions are "converted" by adding electrons to them. The source of these electrons defines