Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 28 14:25:33 EST 2007 | Bill
We have a board that uses a solder pad for one of the contacts of a button battery and had no problems when we were washing the boards. We are now using a no-clean flux and find that on a bunch of boards there is a coating of flux covering the pad s
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 01 13:17:39 EDT 2015 | davef
Cheryl Tulkoff and Randy Schueller do a good job summarizing the thinks on pad cratering here: http://www.smta.org/chapters/files/uppermidwest_padcratering.pdf Potential Mitigations to Pad Cratering * Board Redesign * Solder mask defined vs. non-s
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 01 04:54:28 EDT 2015 | jvercamm
hi, the last post on pad cratering dates from 2012. We have (likely similar) problems with a RoHS 783 solder ball BGA size 29x29mm^2 (organic package BT), pitch is 1mm and solder ball diam is 0.5mm the field failure is after 12 months, almost exclu
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 28 15:09:57 EST 2007 | Hussman
Some no-cleans will pool flux on the top of the solder joint which acts like an insulator. I normally do not paste "contact" pads. You can have your board house HASL them if you need the extra bump on the pad.
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 19 01:56:53 EDT 2011 | ppcbs
I've been seeing a lot of product come in with what appears to be black pad lately. I've sent stuff out to labs to be told there is no contamination. Contamination or not solder won't wet to it. Regardless of what it is we have a method to remove
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 21 08:55:35 EDT 2003 | russ
The pads you use for Reflow will be be fine for handsolder. Russ
Electronics Forum | Sat Apr 19 12:00:07 EDT 2003 | modeltech
I am completely new to SMT design and for my next project I plan to use SMT for the first time. Since production volumes of the PCB's will be low, hand soldering is definitely an option, and will be necessary for my prototype PCB assembly. My proble
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 22 05:38:56 EDT 2003 | mk
This sounds like a job for ssd. No pad shapes to worry about. Look into http://www.sipad.net and please contact me off line to discuss it. Matt Kehoe mkehoe@sipad.net
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 21 21:46:04 EDT 2003 | davef
We agree with Russ.
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 13 12:10:47 EDT 2022 | winston_one
Hello! We have a strange effect. Some pads of big trough-hole DDR slot just dessapear. Initialy it was soldered with selective soldering process (leaded, 290 degrees, ImSn finish, very short storage). Then some connectors with poor barrel fill we hav
