Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 22 10:24:23 EST 2014 | cyber_wolf
No matter how good your process is, you will get solder on the gold fingers/lands unless they are protected. We have proven that solder will get on the gold fingers in the reflow oven. How that happens....we arent't 100% sure...there are a lot of the
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 13 20:17:35 EST 1998 | Chuck Garth
| | I believe that gold fingers on my circuit boards are being | | contaminated and need to clean them with some chemical | | solution. Any recommendations. | | | Chuck: What is the type and source of your contamination? Dave F | We are using a s
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 25 06:43:06 EDT 2003 | cyber_wolf
We are currently producing a board for a customer that has about 400 gold fingers that get wire bonded after the assy. leaves our facility. We have tried many different approaches to ensure that we are not getting solder on the gold fingers. Nothing
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 15 14:03:25 EST 2006 | samir
Robert McKeown Company makes thermally conduct Al tape. KIC did a study on which method (Kapton Tape, Aluminum Tape, Hi-Temp Solder) is the most repeatable. The study can be found in their website: http://www.kicthermal.com Al Tape placed 2nd, and
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 02 19:20:43 EDT 2003 | teamcanada
Have you looked into Kapton tape as a protectant?
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 21 05:05:52 EDT 2007 | vangogh
Hi All, I would like to get some inputs regarding this.... I have bare PCB which were stored with kapton tape attached on the Au plated pads. These were stored for close to a year. Upon removal of kapton tape, we noticed discolorations on the edges o
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 13 23:33:33 EST 1998 | Kallol Chakraborty
| | | I believe that gold fingers on my circuit boards are being | | | contaminated and need to clean them with some chemical | | | solution. Any recommendations. | | | | | Chuck: What is the type and source of your contamination? Dave F | | We a
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 14 08:05:54 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | | I believe that gold fingers on my circuit boards are being | | | | contaminated and need to clean them with some chemical | | | | solution. Any recommendations. | | | | | | | Chuck: What is the type and source of your contamination? Dave
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 25 08:50:54 EDT 2003 | russ
I believe that Fancort makes some finger protectors that are made of Metal (Aluminum, titanium, etc...) I don't know how well these would process through placement equipment however due to their thickness. Could you clean the Kapton residue off just
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 30 11:55:55 EDT 2004 | Chris Lampron
Hello Fredrick, I have used several methods of TC attachment including quick set adheasives (not good at reflow temps as Dave suggests) long set two part epoxies (work well if you have the time to wait for a sufficiant cure) temprobes, tape (kapton
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