Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 22 07:16:37 EDT 2012 | brettrenishaw
Spray fluxing yes but have checked the uniformity by using a fluxometer. Also have put boards through with only flux and preheat. no wave up to see if the carrier is being burnt off. I will look into the skip plating issue. Thanks again
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 07 22:44:39 EST 2017 | wrander1
Hi I'm new to the world of wire bonding. I seem to have some sort of pad contamination Preventing gold wire from bonding to aluminum pats. There appears to be a dozen microns size particles. And a slight crackling of the surface at 500 X. I am send
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 20 01:38:53 EST 2019 | ajspec
Hi, i'm facing solder mask peel off but limited to the solder defined pad only(opening area). no peel off on the other area and it happened on electroless nickel immersion gold finishing only. for other finishing is not affected. kindly advise if you
Electronics Forum | Thu May 02 09:33:30 EDT 2013 | 15009
Looking for advice on soldering lead free paste to a board with very heavy gold plating. I have learned from the Customer that this is HARD GOLD and that it is 10-20 Micro Inches Hard Gold over 100 Micro inches of Nickel. When we reflowed the solde
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 20 05:04:30 EDT 2006 | bing007
We had a similar problem with gold contact pads. Cleanliness is paramount. If you are using foil tensioning system, wash the foil in a stencil wash before use as the cardboard cassettes may be contaminated. Be very careful when loading into a frame f
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 29 06:57:20 EDT 2005 | mattkehoe
Hi Bob, We tried flowing the pads with a soldering iron. The pad at the tip of the iron went shiny but as soon as the iron was taken away, the pad returned to the dull finish. You could actually move the tip around the pad and it would shine up then
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 01 07:24:44 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| Hi folks , | Lately we are seeing a lot of rawcards with black spots on the pads - most of them have Au finish(immersion gold) . We did a lot of inspecton after wave solder and found that only (fine pitch) QFP are affected the most. Our inspection
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 01 07:54:49 EST 1998 | kallol chakraborty
| | Hi folks , | | Lately we are seeing a lot of rawcards with black spots on the pads - most of them have Au finish(immersion gold) . We did a lot of inspecton after wave solder and found that only (fine pitch) QFP are affected the most. Our inspec
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 21 17:17:47 EDT 2003 | justin
Do some push / pull testing. Typically with black pad, you can flick the components right off the board. If you have this, the boards are about as reliable as a Yugo. If you get decent push / pull results, odds are you don't have black pad and you
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 01 09:02:18 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | Hi folks , | | | Lately we are seeing a lot of rawcards with black spots on the pads - most of them have Au finish(immersion gold) . We did a lot of inspecton after wave solder and found that only (fine pitch) QFP are affected the most. Our in
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