Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 16 08:31:15 EDT 2005 | jh0n!
The most part I have the most difficulty with is a 16mil QFN. We found that reducing stencil thickness to 4mil, and reducing aperatures for the IC by 20%, and setting local fiducials to the IC helped immensely. We used to get 75% or more bridged ou
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 16 00:24:29 EDT 2005 | mskler
Hi everybody, Can some body tell me that what stencil thicknes is required for the 16mil QFP. I am getting bridging as well as dry at QFP pins. What type of solder 1. Viscocity 2. mesh size 3. flux contents Should be used for this type
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 16 22:14:51 EDT 2005 | davef
16 thou pitch parts: Use a 5 thou laser cut electropolished stencil with 0.008"x0.045" apertures and type 3 solder paste. Bridges Connecting or Partially Connecting Adjacent Leads or Lands * Excessive solder paste * Excessive component placement pre
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 20 07:58:02 EST 1999 | pascal MATHIEU
hello guys ; we are using a fine pitch component(0.65mm) on a thick copper PCB (Cu = 90�m) ; in this case we notice that we are in the process'limits , because the different supplier of the PCB are not able to ensure a good stability of it's process
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 10 13:26:40 EST 2012 | dyoungquist
We are using our selective solder machine to solder a backplane with sixteen (16) 4x48 pin 0.080" connectors. Our first pass yield is about 85% meaning that 85% of the connectors come out with no bridges. Not quite as fine pitch as your connector a
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 06 12:37:14 EST 2012 | deanm
We are having difficulty with bridging on a 2x50 pin 0.050" fine pitch connector using our selective soldering machine. It usually bridges at the end of the row, but sometimes it bridges all the pins together as it drags across (solid bridging). I
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 17 15:47:42 EDT 2002 | stepheno
Where I worked previously we had some boards with a couple 15 mil pitch parts. The first batch we got all had undersized pads. We had lots of bridging. We had less bridging with bigger pads. The ball size in the paste makes a bigger diffence regar
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 17 15:03:33 EDT 2002 | ccross
I am working with fine pitch components (15-20 mil) and having soldering problems and would appreciate some opinions. 1) How much of an effect does pad size have on bridging? 2) How much of an effect does solder paste grain size have? What is the re
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 07 13:31:09 EST 2012 | kenkay
We had a similar issue and it was fixed by trimming the connector so there was barely enough lead protrusion through the board to show a discernible lead. We had to get a special plate and small machine to cut the connectors, but we haven’t had a bri
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 19 11:14:45 EDT 2002 | Jim M.
We had lots of problems with bridging on 15.8mm pitch, QFP17-160 at the start.The board was .032 thick, double sided-six boards to a panel. Here is the problems (not neccessarily in the biggest to little but as i remember them) and solutions that he