Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 28 22:52:34 EDT 2003 | ramanandkini
We have an Electromechanical assembly (clock) that has a step motor on the board. This electromechanical assembly is assembled in a screw less plastic moulded casing. The plastic casing is neither air tight nor water proof. The board is with SMOBC+ H
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 | Mon Jul 05 03:44:53 EDT 2004 | johnwnz
Dave, I'm going to disagree with you on the ENIG, it's my 3rd choice only just beating out OSP for that 4th spot. 1. Immersion Silver - cheaper than ENIG, as flat and no issues with Brittle interface (black pad) or Gold Embrittlement) Longer shelf l
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 15 16:31:25 EDT 2020 | rgduval
You may find some wetting issues running LF HASL with 63/37, as your reflow temperatures will be significantly below the LF reflow. On fiducials...if you don't have a quote for your boards with ENIG, I would recommend at least checking it out. It's
Electronics Forum | Tue May 15 21:57:06 EDT 2001 | davef
Welcome!!! Where the hay ya been??? Sorry bud, were lining-up with your fab [it hurts me to say that, but when yer ] We used to dry pack with desiccants, also. Its probably an old MIL-STD-2073-1C requirement [er something like that]. We qui
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 21 10:35:37 EDT 2012 | davef
Flash gold is just thin electrolytic gold plating over electroless nickel or electrolytic nickel. Flash gold plating ... * Less than 3 microinch thick will be porous and take solder poorly * Greater than 10 microinch thick will cause brittle solder c
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 22 22:22:52 EDT 2001 | davef
First an administrative point, you can edit the postings that you make on SMTnet. Look for the yellowish-greenish EDIT button at the top of your posting. Second there are over 170 postings on intermetallic* on the fine SMTnet Production Forum Archi
Electronics Forum | Thu May 02 07:11:10 EDT 2002 | davef
They probably the same. Most likely someone is saying immersion gold [immersion Au] as a short hand for ENIG [ Electroless Nickel - Immersion Gold]. It is very uncommon to plate gold directly on copper, because gold and copper form a brittle interm
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 18 17:23:40 EDT 2008 | dkntb
Any member in here has experienced of copper migration from BGA's substrate to PWB during eutectic soldering reflow process, which resulted in brittle solder joints??? We have one customer notified us that our PBGA with DSOP substrate having copper m
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 16 08:20:58 EDT 2004 | Bob L.
We've seen problems with BGA balls breaking at in-circuit test. I did some bend testing and found that our large BGA's can handle amazing stresses at low strain rates but we get brittle fractures at high strain rates, especially with Ni/Au surface f
