Electronics Forum | Fri May 21 18:32:53 EDT 2004 | Abe Froman
We have been using nitrogen in our reflow ovens for many years to reduce oxidation on our solder joints. Management is concerned about the high cost of nitrogen and have suggested we use hydrogen instead. I'm not sure if this is a good idea, but we
Electronics Forum | Fri May 21 20:38:40 EDT 2004 | Grant Petty
Hi, This would be a very exciting idea. Nitrogen is an inert gas, so this is why it's used, however Hydrogen mixed with oxygen in normal air is highly explosive, so it would be one of the worst gasses to use in a reflow oven I would think. Remember
Electronics Forum | Thu May 27 21:41:44 EDT 2004 | valuepr
Im not an expert at this, but im going to have to agree with blnorman. I wouldn't use Hydrogen, its very explosive. I would look into a considering a new oven to cut back on cost. Yes you will have to put out the money for a new unit, but if it reduc
Electronics Forum | Mon May 24 06:00:23 EDT 2004 | johnwnz
call me picky but doesn't hydrogen combust? maybe soemthing you could do is look at your process and your products and decide if you actually need to run in N2. Yes ok I can hear the crys now but seriously, for the vast majority of things if you have
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 30 08:30:33 EST 2002 | seto
Hello Dave, Mechanically the conection between the component pad and PCB pad is good (the solder joint is very strong). The problem is associated with poor contact after the use by the customer (vibration, temperature, etc). You can see the pictures
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 16 13:53:52 EDT 2022 | yannick_herzog
Hello all, we use a reflow oven from Rehm in our SMT production. At the moment we solder under nitrogen atmosphere (approx. 500ppm). Now we want to reduce the nitrogen consumption (costs etc.). What consequences can occur here? Especially on the s
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 02 17:52:11 EST 2004 | swagner
We are not having a problem, we have a customer that would like us to use post reflow AOI to inspect the solder joints to class three. I would like to see if anyone is having sucess doing this.
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 03 12:24:56 EST 2004 | swagner
Paul, do you have any kind of false failure data for the application you struggled with? Also what amount of manpower did you use to operate the system(s).
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 03 12:39:20 EST 2004 | paul_bmc
We had the data at the time and it was quite high. More false calls then anything. I do not have the data anymore it since has been archived. When the system was introduced we had 1 engineer and 2 operators trained for programming and running the
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 03 15:40:17 EDT 2013 | davef
Shear tests are [in my opinion] senseless. The shear stress you measure depends more on the shear rate and on the point where the force is applied than on the grain structure. When shearing a component, you not only apply shear stress, but also roll
