Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 15 22:33:32 EST 2013 | boardhouse
Hi Samuel, The issue your seeing is caused by lack of control of your board shops Immersion gold plating line. I would reject the order back to them. Their gold line baths need to be checked or they had a poor rinse after nickel plate before adding
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 29 10:02:28 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
Chris A lot of people have reported sudden, fab lot related problems with Ni/Au pads. These are usually characterized by a discoloration of the gold and called cheerful names like "black pad disease". This can be a process problem at your fab house
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 03 18:36:47 EST 1999 | Earl Moon
| Does anyone know if I will have problems soldering surface mount components to an all hard gold plated PC board. We want to use hard gold similar to gold used for edge fingers because our customer is concerned about wear and conductivity of connect
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 17 11:55:31 EDT 2001 | davef
5uin. Your nickel thickness is fine. Although if you wanted to trade costs, consider giving-up nickel to 150uin thickness, while increasing the gold thickness. Gold over electroless nickel creates brittle joints because of phosphorous in the nicke
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 13 06:42:14 EDT 2012 | brettrenishaw
We have a problem with our Unleaded wave solder machine only randomly soldering some pads. I have looked at the flux level and that appears fine aswell as cheking the preheat and solder height in the bath. The probelm is not exclusive to one perticul
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 18 04:21:22 EDT 2012 | brettrenishaw
Measured the pot temprature independantly from the software (268C/514F from moving wave). We are using Dross Inhibiter Tin/P Regenerator from BLT. Monthly sample checks are carried out on the solder bath and are all within limits. It will be hard to
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 20 14:17:35 EDT 2008 | robinj
The discoloration/shadow appearance is a clear sign of black pad which is from nickel corrosion in the gold bath.
Electronics Forum | Sun Oct 01 09:00:20 EDT 2006 | davef
A lot of plating types hang-out at finishing.com forum.
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 01 19:36:02 EST 2003 | iman
from my humble experience : 1) check if there is nickle contaminate in the gold bath? shd have report data from the PCB fab house. 2) check if your production did 48hr bake at 125degC, IF the BGA did not come in its "original" MSD cozy packaging.
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 07 10:51:58 EST 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi O'Conner, I hope you also tell us what Universal-GeorgeW discusses with you. It is a little strange seeing his name on this list and his phone number. Gee I can give you his email address but won't.. Again distance engineering is tough. I woul
