Electronics Forum | Wed May 17 13:48:37 EDT 2006 | dwelch123
I'm having trouble printing leads on a fine pitch part. The lead is only .008". I'm using a DEK 265 with metal squeegee and using WS200 multicore solder paste.The stencil is laser cut and polished. I've experimented with different pressures and diffe
Electronics Forum | Wed May 17 14:02:06 EDT 2006 | russ
So, what is the pitch of the part and the pad size, also tell us the thickness of stencil. Russ
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 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 | Tue Oct 22 09:20:31 EDT 2013 | swag
Yes, car rims (and brass tubas)! You finally helped me get to the bottom of this expensive issue. We fired the culprit. It's the same guy that was using the ultrasonic stencil washer to clean car parts on night shift. It might be snake oil, I don
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 06 19:03:33 EST 2002 | broncos
If you are certain that reflow process is good, I would suggest starting checking the following: 1. Check to see if leads / pads are contaminated or oxidized. However, this usually results poor solder quality throughout the board. 2. Check the amou
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 07 12:35:38 EST 2002 | slthomas
Sounds like you're talking about the "heel" of the lead not being soldered, in other words, no heel fillet, which IS necessary. That problem, for us, was attributed primarily to poor layout (insufficient length of pad extension to provide room for
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 11 17:03:28 EDT 2001 | mparker
I've used Super Glue, with Kapton tape. The glue leaves a small residue and the tape acts as a strain relief. If you can sacrifice the board, drill a small hole through the board, push the exposed ends of the thermocouple up from the back side, lay
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 07 09:56:26 EST 2002 | bpan
Thanks for the ideas guys. My QC inspector can take a pick and move the back part of the lead....even though the front of the lead is soldered enough to hold. There is SOME NOT ALL areas where there is no solder on the curved portion of the lead.The
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 06 15:47:49 EST 2002 | bpan
Hello All, Having a problem during reflow and would like your opinions. We are using Kester r562 water soluble paste and I am using a Kic 2000 profiler in a 4 zone oven (top only). We are seeing poor wetting or fillets that are not "passable" per IPC
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