Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 22 12:39:38 EST 1999 | Dave F
Wolfgang: From US baseball parlance: Home Plate. A five sided, two dimensional, closed shape where three equal length sides form a cube with one side removed and two additional equal length sides that form interior angles of 135�, 90�, and 135�.
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 16 13:46:06 EDT 2001 | Hussman
Hi Pavel, I'll bet you're talking after reflow - so in a nutshell - it is too much solder. Paste goes under the R or C and rests on the mask after placement. During reflow, this excess paste balls up along your part (wow, look Ma, no rocket scienc
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 16 13:29:51 EDT 2006 | SWAG
Is 811 lead paste? If so, it seems to me that your oven settings are getting into soak awful fast in zone 2 and your peak is way high. Unless you are doing a thick board or something like that, those oven settings seem aggressive and might result i
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 17 08:09:05 EST 2000 | Mark Anderson
As stated previous, the following elements all have a effect on solder beading. Solder Paste, stencil apertures(reduction of home plate), stencil thickness, printing parameters, placement height, reflow preheat and soaking slope and dwell, manufactur
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 10 07:47:47 EDT 2008 | ck_the_flip
Stencil design and pad layout are key. Too far apart - bad. If your pad geometry is correct, try the inverted home plate. That has worked well for me in the past. That, coupled with a 5-mil stencil. With regard to solder paste, some manufacturer
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 19 09:16:24 EDT 2016 | markhoch
Hi Shriram, Are you saying that there is a trace running between the pads for this 0603 capacitor? If so, this design may be causing a gasketing issue between the stencil and the PCB. The uneven height prevents the stencil from sitting flat on the PC
Electronics Forum | Tue May 02 15:09:40 EDT 2006 | PWH
Just a few problems you might have to deal with: 1) Your bare boards must be clean and kept clean though-out the process. You could notice handling contamination that might otherwise have been removed in your wash. 2) You will see solder balls a
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 17 15:27:51 EDT 2001 | jschake
Challenges: The basic defects that impact assembly yield are bridging, satellite solder balls, and opens (i.e. tombstones / draw bridges). There are many variables with the stencil printing process that can impact these; several of them are listed
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 29 10:11:02 EDT 2019 | cyber_wolf
“For a number of years now, work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a transmission that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 28 17:54:59 EDT 2000 | Steve Thomas
We're trying out 0603 packages on some 0805 footprints (at this stage only on some test boards) since our vendor tells us the 0805's are going to be getting harder to get, and more expensive to pay for. I understand the IPC footprint for the two is
