Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 18 17:36:32 EST 2008 | kennyg
I should have mentioned... the only flux we use for the hand soldering is wire-core, no bottle flux. I think it should be a non-issue to leave the activated wire core flux residue. I'm just looking for some way to prove it to the designer.
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 18 17:27:13 EST 2008 | jdumont
If the hand soldering is done right and you use little to no extra flux (other than whats in the solder wire) you should be ok. You should still verify with some testing however... You need to make sure any flux used is activated, thus rendered benig
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 19 09:26:54 EST 2008 | jdengler
The low solids flux that is commonly called no-clean can affect some circuits. We are building a PCB that measures pico amps. The customer required that it be cleaned. We would rather used the low solids and eliminate a step. The customer had
Electronics Forum | Thu May 31 12:21:14 EDT 2007 | patrickbruneel
Let me give you some good advice You take already plenty of risk going lead-free, DO NOT use halogen containing fluxes in a lead-free no-clean process. Halogens left on the board will convert tin, silver and exposed copper into metal salts over tim
Electronics Forum | Thu May 31 10:52:31 EDT 2007 | patrickbruneel
A solder wire classified as L0 under IPC J-STD-004 means that the flux residues can be left on the board safely, and when you select this type of cored wire the intention is not to clean. You just select a solder wire that gives you an acceptable lev
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 24 20:10:06 EST 2004 | Ken
IF you open up your TV, cd player or color printer you will see RA / RMA flux ON EVERYTHING! The waxy binder protects the halogenated compounds from becoming active with atmospheric moisture. Self healing is a good way to look at it. However, OA is
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 29 16:38:07 EDT 2014 | rgduval
These papers are a good place to start when learning about profiling: https://www.smtnet.com/library/files/upload/374_RSS_vs_RTS_revised_12-99_(no_pics).doc http://www.ipcoutlook.org/pdf/best_practices_reflow_profiling.pdf If you're having a lot o
Electronics Forum | Sun Jan 01 22:48:46 EST 2006 | Joseph
We are using selective soldering pallet, which the soldering flux is Interflux 2005M. We encountered the poor hole fill mainly at the heat sink components. Initially we tried to apply more heat but tend to overkill the flux activity. After some modif
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 12 22:32:49 EDT 2015 | louisg
Hello. I would like to know the difference (if any) between water soluble flux and test socket cleaners (e.g. for Burn-In Board test sockets). As far as I know, they both remove oxides (tin & copper) with an activator, solvent and surfactants. Tha
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 13 18:06:08 EDT 2015 | caurbach
I'm not familiar with any "test socket cleaners", but I will tell you that water soluble flux is designed for a soldering application so it requires heat to activate. Not sure how effective it would be at removing oxides at room temperature. Second
