Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 04 12:37:41 EST 2005 | Cmiller
We have been using this finish almost exclusively for fine pitch boards for about 5 years. Make SURE you use a board house that does the gold plating in-house. There are some potential issues as DaveF stated. The only problem we have encountered is w
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 13 12:32:14 EDT 2007 | rgduval
We've experienced this issue with SN100. A couple of things we've tried, all with varying levels of success: 1. Longer pre-heats. We use SN100 in a solder pot, and pre-heat the boards on our wave machine. This did have a positive effect, but I ne
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 18 12:24:53 EDT 2016 | oleksz
Some people involved in PCB assembly process claim that SMD components reflow soldering problems are often caused by traces running under a component. According to this claim, trace (or any copper) covered by solder mask and placed under SMD componen
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 18 12:25:30 EDT 2016 | oleksz
Some people involved in PCB assembly process claim that SMD components reflow soldering problems are often caused by traces running under a component. According to this claim, trace (or any copper) covered by solder mask and placed under SMD componen
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 17 15:51:35 EST 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi A GREAT come back!! After a Wait to see "Show and Tell" To change the topic you launched a little. Who has or has had, this ENIG problem??? A simple yes or no with some detail. YiEng, MA/NY DDave
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 23 12:45:24 EST 2005 | jdumont
Any reason why you would switch to Immersion Ag from ENIG? I am also considering the use of Immersion Ag (switching from good ol 63/37). Are there any papers on the benifits/problems of ENIG vs Immersion Ag?? Thanks in advance JD
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 23 10:08:31 EDT 2004 | B. Hunter
We received bare PCB's that were supposed to have been finished with immersion silver because of BGA locations. The boards were finished in ENIG. We are concerned over any reliabilty problems that might occur as a result of using ENIG at BGA locati
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 02 21:17:41 EST 2000 | Dave F
Dave: It's good to know what that stuff is. With your NiO, you have the typical ENIG problem. I can imagine some causes for your disaster: * too thin gold plating * oxidized nickel under gold plating * porous nickel plating * wrong soldering pr
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 02 21:17:41 EST 2000 | Dave F
Dave: It's good to know what that stuff is. With your NiO, you have the typical ENIG problem. I can imagine some causes for your disaster: * too thin gold plating * oxidized nickel under gold plating * porous nickel plating * wrong soldering pr
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 17 09:08:22 EST 2017 | davef
An interesting paper on the topic is "The evolution of surface finishes in mobile phone applications" by Claus Würtz Nielsen at Nokia Mobile Phones R&D [http://www.cicmt.org/adv_micro/papers/Nordic2004paper.pdf] The paper reported corrosion problem
