Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 14 09:12:59 EDT 2009 | davef
First, there is no good justification for getting solder on gold fingers. Second, it is well known that solder on gold fingers is unacceptable. So, shipping boards with that condition indicates sloppy quality practices at your CM. Third, that being
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 15 19:56:25 EST 2024 | duchoang
Hello, We have Versaprint ERSA Printer. The machine has been working so well since over 10 years. Now, the vaccum cleaning option is not workinh anymore. The machine stops right before the vaccum cleaning start. Any idea to help fixing that problem?
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 21 05:46:34 EDT 2000 | Wolfgang Busko
Once you know what your print should look like, means you have found the right apertures, stencil thickness, stencil finish and the right printer adjustments and alignments, the main things to watch for or better to control when printing is in progre
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 18 12:53:19 EST 2007 | Heywood Jablowme
What is your setting on screen mask printer, stering solder paste, profile reflow etc?
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 05 20:43:27 EST 2001 | davef
1 Solder on gold fingers comes from: 1a About 70 % of the time it's caused by poor cleaning of screen printer, staging area (table), conveyor, reflow oven chain or belt, and keeping boards separate from cleaning process 1b After loading paste onto
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 12 21:42:33 EST 1999 | Jon Medernach
What's important in stencil printing (which differs from screen printing) is providing a consistant volume of paste at each interconnect. The process window varies in proportion to the pitch. More than 60% of all defects are related to solder depos
Electronics Forum | Sun Mar 04 02:39:27 EST 2012 | eadthem
I don't have our DEK printer part numbers memorized, In general we have a older machine running NT4.0 . It has 2Di inspection but we never use it because you can only inspect/setup 1 camera shot at once, making for very long programming. Our newer D
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 04 12:05:52 EDT 2012 | duchoang
cobhambill is right but depend on how bad the defect, and how good your printer is, you can reprint it one more time. I did sometimes with my equipment with no problem. It's hard to clean NO-CLEAN solder-paste properly, specially with panelized PCB w
Electronics Forum | Wed May 05 06:30:40 EDT 2021 | jineshjpr
Do Proper underneath stencil cleaning. if the cleaning not effective, check Vaccuum section of the printer machine. Else change the Wipe roll. Trying out with other cleaning solvent (dedicated to stencil cleaner) also improve this issues.
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 02 14:59:41 EDT 2008 | hermes
if two boards with different solder masks give different results on flux residue level after soldering with the exact same machine settings than it is clear that one of the solder masks is not compatible with your no-clean flux. could be the solder m
