Electronics Forum | Sat May 30 01:31:49 EDT 2009 | mika
make 4 square rounded corner apertures on the ground pad and the total reduction of 20 % (80 % solder paste). Then you still be able to solder the terminals around. Don't worry to much of the void's. Just following my tips and you will be fine. The
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 28 11:16:45 EDT 1999 | Steve Gregory
Hello all, I read about Steve's headache a few articles back and I'm really interested by his tip. However, I'm still wondering why square apertures release solder paste better than round ones. For the same volume of paste, the surface area of th
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 28 12:18:04 EDT 1999 | Scott McKee
| Hello all, | | I read about Steve's headache a few articles back and I'm really interested by his tip. However, I'm still wondering why square apertures release solder paste better than round ones. For the same volume of paste, the surface area
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 23 16:37:22 EDT 2004 | Terry
Three methods, all work, all require generous use of flux. 1.) Use a heated, electrical desoldering tool with flux. Just be sure that you select a forgiving desoldering tip with a rounded tip end to it so that you do not scratch the pad. Advantage:
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 30 15:07:40 EDT 2008 | jemills
Hello I have a new 0402 pad design on a recent board were building in future. On closer look i thought the pad was a thru hole mount , but upon closer inspection the round pads are for 0402 comps. I had a discussion with the engineer and he said
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 30 22:29:58 EDT 2008 | davef
For most applications, a nice square [or rectangle] pad works just fine. Assemblers ship boat loads of boards with these every day. It's reasonable for tight decoupling capacitor requirement applications to use round or radiused pads for components
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 08 17:58:44 EST 1999 | Dave F
Dave: You should see a solder smudge on the gold plating where the ball was attached, if there is (was) solder reflow during either the (1) BGA fabrication, (2) your BGA attach, and / or (3) your BGA removal. You rework will not remove the solder
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 25 10:36:05 EDT 2008 | davef
Yes, it's peculiar that the layout of this board is so disorganized * Pads are not round, uniform, or the same size * Exposed traces have different thickness
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 05 17:36:12 EST 2003 | Stephen
Make sure that the side of the square is the diameter of the pad, That is that the circle is inside the square not that the square is inside the circle. normally the aperatures are smaller than the pad to get gasketing. In this case the idea is to
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 20 19:10:43 EST 2002 | rmerk
I would like to know if there are any detailed studies or sources of information regarding the use of round pads vs square pads with chip components (0402 and greater).Thank you.
