Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 25 21:25:28 EDT 2004 | davef
First as a nit, your �substrate� is probably NOT copper. It�s probably FR4 fiberglass/epoxy. Substrate. Base Material. A supporting insulating material upon which parts, components, and elements are attached. Second, enough of that, on to your i
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 24 21:52:06 EDT 2004 | rose
recently I met one very interesting issue with my board and connector. substrate of the board is copper with immersion silver, pad size is about 3x1mm. we print lead-free paste on the pad, then put the connector on the paste. The board was reflowed u
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 25 20:48:17 EDT 2004 | rose
Hello recently I met one very interesting issue with my board and connector. substrate of the board is copper with immersion silver, pad size is about 3x1mm. we print lead-free paste on the pad, then put the connector on the paste. The board was refl
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 23 14:44:08 EST 2009 | sunny
Are boards produced using Vapor phase ovens dirtier than N2 Reflow oven. Are there any studies/papers someone can point to? if not what are the methods to verify this? is IPC specified SIR test using 24B SIR test coupons? please advise. thanks in adv
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 02 15:21:34 EDT 2005 | pr
Do you have a cube down the hall from me? I think it's already been forgotten, but when blindsided by these requests one has to do SOMETHING! I blasted one in reflow and did a 7 second solder bath dip with another and took pictures, nobody has asked
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 26 08:41:56 EDT 2004 | Bob R.
When we first got into BGAs on ENIG we were getting joint cracking at in-circuit test. The joints were breaking in the Sn-Ni intermetallic. We did a lot of pull testing while working with our board suppliers and our conclusion was that pull testing
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 21 04:27:31 EST 2000 | teohbengee
Need help urgently. Anyone can provide me some information or site on reliability test on PCB assembly like solder joint or anything. Some test like ERSA Test, SHMOO Test, Pull Test, Temperature cycle and humidity Test, vibration Test or any related
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 18 20:24:37 EST 1999 | Tony
I'm trying to replace the PTH connectors with the SMT connectors in my design, and would like to make sure the SMT connector solder joints are as stong as PTH's. What's the right test to verify that? Is Pull and Shear test is the right choice? Where
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 24 14:10:53 EDT 2002 | Terry Burnette
I've been informed that I can't post the Dye Penetrant paper on the SMTNET library till Advanced Packaging releases the paper in their Dec. issue. You should be able to pull a copy in the next couple of weeks from their site, http://ap.pennnet.com/ho
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 25 21:49:14 EDT 2004 | davef
First, any results of pull or shear tests are unscientific at best. [We pop our BGA from boards with, appropriately enough, a beverage can opener.] Second, we have no have problems with your ENIG specification. Third, as with your customer, we'd e
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