Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 08 23:26:28 EDT 2006 | Shawn Vike
We are a small company, reletivly new to doing our own SMT (1 year) and we are having an issue, I think. We manufacture many board with no problems, but we have one that constently defeats us. This particular PCB has ENIG finish, and we have had th
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 09 23:27:53 EST 2000 | Craig
We are considering using gold plating on our fine pitch pcbs (as oppossed to HASL). We have heard of long term solder reliability problems with joint imbrittlment how bad is this and does it apply for all of the different plating processes the same?
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 12 09:32:30 EST 2008 | markhoch
Are there better options? Dude, EVERYTHING else is a better option. Gluing aluminum foil down to the bare copper would be a better option. ENIG (Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold), Immersion Silver, Immersion Tin, and OSP all provide flatter surfac
Electronics Forum | Tue May 30 10:46:06 EDT 2000 | Travis Slaughter
Sounds like you could have a problem caused by the gold. How thick is the plating? Are the connector leads gold too? I have seen gold cause dry looking brittle solder joints in the past.
Electronics Forum | Sat Oct 07 04:02:50 EDT 2000 | C.J. Long
Good morning, All: I am from PCB shop and one of our customer is experiencing solder bridge on 16 mil pitch QFP( immersion gold finish). Land width requirement is 8 +/- 1 mil measured over top of of land and our mean is 7 mil. Bottom land width is 8
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 18 23:44:53 EST 2003 | Dean
...don't expect high yields with hasl on that device. Yeah, you an do it. But not reliably. Also, factor in board warp, bump tolerance AND HASL variation....recipe for disaster. can your process toleate a selective gold on the one device? How ab
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 16 11:42:35 EDT 2008 | slthomas
If support is a concern, don't forget that any support provided by equipment manufacturers will most likely (certainly with Juki and Universal) require registration of the machines at a cost to you of probably $2k-$5k per machine. Some used equipment
Electronics Forum | Thu May 26 08:52:42 EDT 2011 | davef
Phil Zarrow wrote a useful paper that could help in evaluating paste. Here read it ... Evaluating Solder Paste � Not An Option Contributed by Phil Zarrow of ITM an Independent SMT consulting firm With soldering being the dominant source of assembly
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 29 05:50:27 EDT 2001 | nifhail
Thank Dave, your information was really helpful. Now that I have another few thousands of old datecode PCBs which has an Entek and HASL finished. Entek PCBs are about 6 � 1.5 years old and HASL boards are at 1 - 2 years old. To make it worse, s
Electronics Forum | Tue May 21 17:16:51 EDT 2002 | davef
Larry, Yes, no matter how much you�d like to avoid using NC, you probably will have to start using the stuff, if the design [sales, in your case] types have their way. We can clean WS under 1mm and 1.25mm pitch BGA. For 0.8mm pitch BGA, we use NC.
