Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 22 16:16:17 EST 2010 | stepheniii
My old boss bought some stuff to clean the lead off of gold fingers. At least that is what he thought it did. What it really did was remove the gold fingers. And quite well I might add. The short answer to your question is no. And if you replate mak
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 12 13:17:00 EDT 2005 | patrickbruneel
To all smt neters, In many different threads I have tried to bring awareness of the dangers lead free alloys pose to the reliability of solder connections. Many times those warnings have been waved by unscientific reports (from lead free solder manu
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 27 09:31:10 EST 2006 | Slaine
on sections ive looked at with 7 microns of silver and 4microns of copper, the silver had been totally absorbed into the solder in most places and a large amount in some places all the copper as well, so i think the answer is that to provide long ter
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 27 09:09:36 EST 2006 | davef
Silver on your copper or brass part is a solderability protection. The silver diffuses into the solder and you solder to the base metal, either the copper or brass in your case. Soldering to copper is well known. The issues are soldering to brass
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 27 06:42:37 EST 2006 | Slaine
What are the long term issues with high tin content solders on parts plated with silver over copper? Is it possible that the silver will be absorbed by the solder then over a long period of time the tin will react with the copper causing it to part
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 19 11:04:49 EDT 2012 | davef
Melissa ... Are you calling the blobs of solder on the pads solder balls?
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 17 05:06:04 EDT 2012 | benreben
Hi, maybe solderability of PCB...
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 18 21:48:26 EDT 2012 | vergara1
Sorry. I don't see any solder balls. > > To me, it > looks like the solder wetted the pad and then > pulled back. It's called dewetting. It's a > defect. Ask your supplier for a SEM analysis. I'm > interested to know what he / she says. I see
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 18 10:29:21 EDT 2012 | davef
Sorry. I don't see any solder balls. To me, it looks like the solder wetted the pad and then pulled back. It's called dewetting. It's a defect. Ask your supplier for a SEM analysis. I'm interested to know what he / she says.
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 19 10:38:58 EDT 2012 | mark25y2001
It's both solderpaste or PCB pad problem... 1st it's possible that your PCB exposure problem or old stocks, remedy? try to bake your PWB. 2nd, it's possible that PWB coating (wax) are more ticked so that solder paste flux are cannot penetrate to clea
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