Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 10 21:35:39 EDT 2001 | cnoonan
I used to rework many types of BGA's including ceramic. We always preheated the whole board to around 115 c before attempting to remove or place. Now I find myself in a new company with different ideas. Do any of you have a site that has exact recomm
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 30 12:19:38 EDT 2002 | sueph
I am trying to get a profile on a thru-hole board with metalic coating on both sides. My preheaters are about maxed out and my profile is just reaching 200 degeres F. I'm not sure how much I can slow my conveyor down to get more heat. Does any one h
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 31 17:57:11 EDT 2002 | davef
Foam fluxer, ouch!! That hurts. How about this? * Make a sheet metal box to cover your preheaters. [If your boss is really cheap, make a 'box' with 1/2" chicken wire and cover it with aluminum foil.] * Prebake the blank out of the boards, bag the
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 15 09:04:06 EDT 2002 | sueph
Dear Pete, thanks for the reply. My calibration procedure says pretty much what you said: variance of 10 degrees F. I am having a temp. swing of close to 80 degrees F. and no matter how I try to situate the thermocouple back into the preheater, I ca
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 21 11:49:20 EDT 2002 | sueph
Mike, We are currently wave soldering several assemblies with with a lot of ground plane. The soldering handbook we have in house suggests a preheat temp for metal core multilayer boards of 230 to 270 degrees F' (110 to 130 C'). It was scary at fir
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 21 18:31:45 EDT 2002 | MikeF
Mike, If your wave solder machine doesn't have enough preheat capacity you can put the board in an oven and warm it part way before you put it into the wave solder machine. This works best with a spray fluxer, as a warm board will collapse the foam
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 22 12:34:14 EST 2002 | timreisenleiter
I am in the process of sourcing and ordering a BGA rework station. I only have exprerience with the OK-Industries (Now Metcal) BGA-3500 BGA rework system. Any experience/input on other comparable systems would be much appreciated (Pace TF3000, Air-
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 03 23:49:00 EST 2003 | Dreamsniper
Hi, Has anyone who's using vapor phase process able to help me troubleshoot tombstoning? I raed about uneven forces during reflow due to misalignment, pad design, paste volume deposition unevenness due to dirty stencils, worn stencil printer parts s
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 12 10:39:48 EDT 2004 | Ron Herbert
Correct preheating of the assembly is critical. Check with your flux manufacturer regarding the recommended topside pcb temperature as it enters the first wave. It is important that this temperature be achieved without burning the flux on the bottom
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 07 09:54:32 EDT 2004 | Dreamsniper
Hi Guys, Can anyone help me in providing their experience in process related problems with regards to the above equipment? I noticed that it's slightly different with the wave soldering. Wave Process: Apply Flux, Pre-heat then Solder Selective Sol
