Electronics Forum | Fri May 03 16:06:44 EDT 2013 | hegemon
To be short, no change in profile is going to get you through this. As I recall the point of hard gold is to retard the wetting process, so no surprise here. For example a connector might have hard gold plating at the mating surface, but not at t
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 | Wed Jun 29 16:25:51 EDT 2005 | mattkehoe
When discussing this with the customer he said that his vendor recommended a hard gold plating finish on the board due to the BGA. I said "hard gold"??? And he said yes, hard gold. Turns out the boards were plated with hard gold, not ENIG. Thank
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 03 16:45:20 EST 1999 | Mark Henebry
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 connector
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 28 11:02:06 EST 2020 | slthomas
I'm not 100% sure which type of gold you're asking about, but if you're talking about hard gold plating, I think the most common use is to provide a durable surface for things like membrane switch contacts because it resists abrasion and other mechan
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 03 23:40:26 EST 1999 | Chris G.
| 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 | 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 | Tue Jul 11 12:59:26 EDT 2006 | mattkehoe@sipad.com
We are trying to apply solder to boards with 80 microinches of electro plated hard gold. No components involved, just print 63/37 paste and reflow. The results are very poor on some boards, not so bad on others? Pictures at http://www.sipad.net/thick
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 30 20:17:19 EDT 2005 | davef
Matt: What thickness of hard gold was applied to your customer's boards?
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 31 18:26:09 EDT 2013 | Jeff Kennedy
You might consider to contact a lab to Run a microindenter against a know good soft gold sample. The knoop value for the soft gold will be much lower than for hard gold. This would be reflected in the diameter measurement of the indented samples.Smal
