Electronics Forum | Mon May 14 17:12:20 EDT 2001 | davef
Continuing along the path that Brian took ... IPC-7525 gives design guideline for stepped stencils. It goes something like: * Stepped area SB GT 25 thou from pads located on the greatest thickness of the stencil * Pads in stepped area SB GT 35 tho
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 17 02:57:47 EDT 1998 | Bob Willis
| | Looking for Suppliers of surface mount wetting balance equipment. | Bucky: Section 6 of the ANSI/J-STD-002 specification lists wetting balance suppliers. Dave F I like and continue to use the Multicore system. I have had many ours using the sys
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 05 20:31:09 EST 2001 | davef
Most people do not intend to �solder� Type K thermocouples. They use solder to �attach� the thermocouple. Search the fine SMTnet Archives for a posting by Chrys Shea. 1 Common thermocouple types commonly used for thermal profiling are: * Type K �
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 10 11:28:19 EDT 1998 | Justin Medernach
| Is there any problem using SMT on gold boards? 15 years ago we were told not to use gold boards, but I can't remember why. Judging by the other postings it now appears to be common. Only problem I see is that the nickel should be plated, not ele
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 10 18:40:00 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| I am looking for the Industry standards on vias. Are they required to be plated with solder or is copper plating enough? What about reliabilty with either one? Also, if tenting the via is required should it be copper plated or solder plated over
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 27 21:57:16 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Hi Doug: Responding to your questions: � If gold over nickel is self limiting ... You didn�t say whether you gold plating was electroless or immersion. Electroless is not is self limiting. It can plate up to 5 thou. Expect immersion plated gold to
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 17 10:16:42 EDT 2001 | davef
Welcome to SMTnet. Awww, those assemblers are always whining about something. Just tell him to shut-up and build the blankin� boards. Jeesh!!! We used to have copious archives on the topic on SMTnet and our friend Brian is working his fingers t
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 11 09:45:39 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| I'm very familiar with the great board space savings of BGA and all the "claims to fame." However, can someone out there tell me if any concern exist in the inspection realm. Additionally, solder cracking, CTE/TCE mismatches, no leads for stress re
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 17 07:51:49 EST 2000 | Peter Barton
John, I have had previous experience of immersion silver coated PCB's in place of HASL coated type using no-clean processing with little or no problem at all. All of the process parameters were left unchanged. There is a very minor difference in th
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 15 12:57:12 EDT 2000 | Dave F
0.0006" LT Total pad height = Thickness of ( Copper pad + OSP ) = 0.0014" + 0.00000157" = ~0.0014" (You must be using an organic solderability preservative (OSP) or Electroless Nickel immersion gold (ENIG) because 0.003" tin/lead or white tin would
