Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 17 19:00:14 EST 1999 | Earl Moon
| | | We are having a small number (~2%) of our boards pass our manufacturing diagnostics, fail once they reach the customer, fail when they get back to us and then start working again after handling them for a short time. We have eliminated a lot o
Electronics Forum | Sun Feb 13 01:35:55 EST 2000 | Dean
Without further information my first guess would be lack of flux to "cut through" the ENTEK layer. Question: In X-ray is the suspect ball of equal diameter when compared to adjacent balls? If no then the volume of solder is different which would po
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 10 17:47:50 EST 2000 | Dave F
I can�t imagine a high trace count, high via count ceramic board matching-up on price with a FR4 board. http://www.coorstek.com/coorstek/coorstek.asp?menu=literature&reference=literature.asp But that�s not really the issue, is it? The issue is the r
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 23 16:59:43 EST 1998 | Doug Romm
Dave, "Paladium Pillows and Bad Dreams"....that's a good one! I've been doing this for the last 9 years and I've heard quite a bit, but that's really cute! Seriously, in reference to the 'pillow effect' when the lead looks like it is "sitting" on to
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 11 21:54:14 EST 2002 | davef
LONG TERM Your plans to buy a vaccuum bag resealer and a batch drying oven sound good as you say, but you�re correct. They will not help with this current situation. SHORT TERM If your connections are clean, free of pits and holes with a smooth,
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 07 08:46:38 EDT 2002 | davef
The time and temperature required for baking moisture from your boards varies according to the conflicting desires to: * Remove enough entrapped moisture. * Desire to retain solderability of solderable surfaces. Search the fine SMTnet archives for s
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 12 13:34:03 EDT 2004 | gregoryyork
Yes unfortunately solder resist again, getting boring I know. That green stuff on the boards causes all kinds of problems if not applied correctly. Can't blame the flux (as usual) or the process as he has tried all varients to no avail and therosin s
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 28 11:31:08 EST 2005 | russ
This sounds a lot like a profile that is killing flux activity prior to wave immersion. What is your topside preheat temp just prior to hitting the wave? What type of preheat do you have, convection or radiant? Are you using a chip/turbulent wave
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 19 22:47:36 EDT 2006 | davef
So, a 10SWG is about an 8AWG. We can't think of a IPC standard for design of this type of product. That the solder is running up the wire indicates something is wrong. We wonder if either: * Holes in the board might be too large for the wire. Doe
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 22 05:19:42 EDT 2009 | ghepo
Dear Eric, in my opinion this is a very complex problem, that require to know many details for answer. For example : 1) what about the PCB finishing ? Have you verify the quality of they ? 2) what about the solder paste (the exactly composition)? 3)
