Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 09 21:17:10 EST 2004 | gm05688
When soldering a metalized germanimum window to a nickle plated kovar part, I would like to understand the intermetalic. Does the nickle plate actually melt or will the solder(SN63)simple stick to the nickle and not cause nickle to reflow? Any one ou
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 09 22:26:17 EST 2004 | davef
You should to be soldering to the nickel. The intermetallic is Ni3Sn4. "At relatively low temperatures, the tin-nickel layers form about as rapidly as the tin-copper layers do, but at higher temperatures their growth rate is distinctly lower. At 10
Electronics Forum | Sun Apr 13 19:50:20 EDT 2003 | yukim
Hi, We are placing (+) & (-) terminals in SMT. We have just changed the plating of them: from Nickel to Tin (Sn). During the trial, we used the same reflow profile as before changing, and the solder seems different: a bit cold, with some solder paste
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 16 21:00:50 EDT 2003 | yukim
Hi Dave, thanks! The peak temp on the terminal device is about 210C. Some more questions: The soldering part of the terminal is about the same size as the PCB pad. We observe a lot of voids when we remove the terminal device, whice can be removed v
Electronics Forum | Sun May 05 22:18:20 EDT 2002 | ianchan
Hi mate, we had a crap experience (once...no more...) with gold plated over nickle (Au/Ni) PCB that had nickle contaminents in the PCB supplier's gold bath. the Ni caused batch-delivery of the PCB to us for mass production, to exhibit the visible s
Electronics Forum | Mon May 06 00:09:00 EDT 2002 | ianchan
as a followup thought, what is your current peak reflow deg-C? and reflow timing (sec)? Au/Ni calls for reflow temperature of 217 deg-C for solder fusion that produces secondary eutectic alloy. there was one time we thought 183 deg-C was the magic
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 14 17:21:31 EDT 2004 | russ
How old are these parts? Sn/Ni plating is very succeptable to age and everything else. They are possibly tarnished. Also, what is your peak temp in reflow? It takes about 225 230 C to get good wetting to the underlying nickel. Russ
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 14 16:48:34 EDT 2004 | jsmith01
Is any one else having a problem with parts that are Ni/Sn plated? The parts in question are a 1206 voltage suppressor form AVX. I am still using a stander 63/37 solder paste which is according to AVX�s web sight compatible with this plating. The
Electronics Forum | Fri May 10 01:41:04 EDT 2002 | ianchan
Steve, Hi mate, was doing some text book reading and saw this one paragraph that commented on the PCB fab plating could have residue chemistry inherent in the PCB if the fab process control isn't up to mark. such chemistry could surface to the Au/N
Electronics Forum | Fri May 10 13:52:46 EDT 2002 | pjc
FYI: not all OSP are created equal. I have had expierence, both good and bad w/ OSP boards. To qualify the vendor I would take a bare board and run it thru my oven twice on a reflow profile then flux it with NC flux and run it thru the wave solder fo
