Electronics Forum | Sun Sep 27 23:10:19 EDT 2009 | hallwayit
Hi, Walter, Why don't you try no-clean flux? We ever met the same condition, later, we changed to no-clean flux solved the problem.
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 03 11:20:41 EDT 2009 | thunderdog5000
I have a customer that is having a flux residue problem after wave soldering. Flux is roaring through the board to the top side and leaving a residue. This is only happening on the flat stamped leads. The round leads are fine. They are using Supe
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 29 01:25:32 EST 2006 | yusuf
About one year we have that problem with some of pcbs. Our customers told us about that. Because they can't mounting components on those pcb reason of flux residue. As you know flux not conductive chemical. We didn't change anything before having tha
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 04 02:09:03 EDT 2009 | sachu_70
Hi Walter, Do you refer to a sprayfluxer operation? The problem seems to be a parameter setting issue. 1. Ensure the wide angle spray reaches PCB with optimum jet pressure. You could pass a glass plate to understand flux coverage and view Jet pressur
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 15 13:16:08 EDT 2005 | Brian
We have seen this problem in the past and had to deal with similar customer constraints. It's not the flux causing the wetting, but the placement and pad geometries as some have mentioned. To reduce or eliminate the problem, we have changed the ape
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 07 15:32:37 EDT 2005 | saragorcos
Hi Lloyd, Have you done any ionic analysis to find out what the flux residue is composed of? If you can eliminate the source residue, then your problem obviously should go away. Though tombstoning isn't known to be much of a functional problem it i
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 06 10:58:54 EDT 2001 | Steve
If I had to deal with this problem, I would switch to water soluble paste. It is a much more cost effective solution.
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 14 04:28:45 EDT 2005 | lloyd
Folks, Thanks for all the info and suggestions but let me add a bit more to the pot. Our products work in a harsh environment and are classed as safety critical. Customer returns are our biggest concern, we don't get very many and feeling here seem
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 06 09:49:26 EDT 2001 | ksfacinelli
This is a real problem. We have experimented with a number of off the shelf products as well as discussed the issue with a few solder manufacturers. As you are aware IPA or Flux off can make the product look worse. I would discuss with the custome
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 07 04:34:19 EDT 2005 | Lloyd
This problem exists at a very low level but happens on all our discrete components, all our products and in two plants. Between the PCB land and the component termination there is a barrier of flux residue, this actually lifts the component slightly
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