Electronics Forum | Mon May 14 13:33:36 EDT 2007 | jax
Solderability!!! The CM in question has probably seen too many solder problems with White Tin in the past. We have had the same issues. To save us from spending too much time and money(verifying pure Tin plating thickness, Chemical leaching from th
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 02 16:34:43 EDT 2007 | jmelson
Ungar used to sell a little tube of clear stuff that they called something like "tip anti-seize". I used it on Imperial irons, back in the days before electronic temperature control. The pure copper threads on the heating element would seize to the
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 07 11:58:36 EDT 2008 | pbarton
We have experienced the same problem with Pd/AG and P/Ag terminations on precision resistive parts. The problem is dissolution of the termination metallisation into the bulk solder. This is exacerbated by the higher thermal profiles required for RoHS
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 29 10:23:30 EDT 2008 | vladig
Everyone has been playing a guess game so far :-) but we don't even know what the lead finish is:-) Even old (Sn-Pb finish) days, the ammount of Pb in the plating would be on a single digit level (just to mitigate Sn-whiskers growth), meaning that th
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 03 19:54:23 EDT 2008 | vladig
Well, I'm not a sale person whatsoever. I'm a purely technical guy (even PhD :-)) who has been with the industry for quite a few years and I know very well what intermetallics means and how thck it should be for different board finishes and solders
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 06 15:11:17 EDT 2009 | ysutariya
Was this a lead-free capable material that fits into IPC 4101/126 or /129, like an Isola 370HR? I would not be surprised because from the picture I think I can see resin underneath the lifted copper, which is an interlaminate separate. This is a
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 24 11:17:19 EDT 2009 | stepheniii
Don't make that assumption. Once we had concerns about PCB's not matching what was ordered. I said "if we got HASL instead of ENIG, how do we know we got lead-free?" I mean if one thing got mixed up in translation, maybe two did. So we put a bare P
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 07 11:32:20 EST 2009 | brianksc
Hi All, I am trying to figure out the best way to rework around 2.7K worth of 48pin QFP ICs. I am trying to salvage these ICs from defective PCBA and they have quite a bit of rosin flux on them. Does anyone know how to get the flux off while minim
Electronics Forum | Sun Apr 04 00:51:01 EDT 2010 | jmelson
On the Xilinx chips, I am pretty sure these hairs are NOT tin whiskers. The solder in this particular build was SnPb, and pure tin would almost certainly melt at soldering iron temperatures. My theory is that slivers of the lead frame material, lik
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 10 16:19:34 EST 2010 | swag
We have one and it's awesome. No problems & training and install was great. The only problem we have had in a couple years is inconsistent nozzle fountain (lasted a day or two until we figured it out). It was our fault - an operator had mixed hand
