Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 15 11:40:37 EST 1999 | Bob Willis
| | I am experiencing a problem with a surface mount coax connector that over time pulls loose from the PWB. The connector has 4 small gold plated leads and we are soldering it to a flash gold board. A cable plugs into the connector and puts some c
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 05 12:17:31 EST 2007 | Cmiller
Our first pass yield across all our products is above 95% but we include anything that does not meet IPC standards. Probably 75% of our failures are not electrical. AOI is a great tool to get a consistent measure of your process. I dont know how anyo
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 25 13:42:35 EST 2010 | patrickbruneel
This is a post from another forum as a response from Bob Landman to a claim that he had no evidence to be concerned about lead-free in hirel applications (interesting read). See below and am sure many technetters will find this interesting **********
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 07 11:10:56 EDT 1999 | Brian Wycoff
| | | | | | | Geez, those test guys are always whining about via holes, aren't they? I even had one test guy go over to our finals/add-on department and instruct everone to look for unfilled vias and fill them by hand! Without consulting the area
Electronics Forum | Tue May 08 13:39:27 EDT 2001 | genny
Thank you for your response. I have been told that x-ray strength is finding solder volume and pattern root cause defects, and will catch a high % of them - opens, shorts, insufficient solder, and missing components(shape of solder on pad w/o lead i
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 29 11:14:46 EDT 1999 | Justin Medernach
| I'm working on a prototype board that requires a 600 pin BGA. This is a metal top BGA being placed on a 11" x 17" PCB about .62" thick. | | The part is 1.77" square with a 50 mil pitch and 30 mil bump diameter. The bumps are located on the
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 15 11:04:53 EDT 1998 | Justin Medernach
| | It seems like most people want to X-Ray their BGAs. We're going to start doing a lot more of them and need to consider X-ray, too. | | Q: Do most people/companies X-ray everyBGA or do they just do SPC? | | Q: Can you get away with spending 25K?
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 19 20:01:11 EST 1998 | Steve Gregory
| We use no clean paste and sometimes experience | flux splattering which gives spot on gold fingers. | Need help in analize the cause. thx. Dominic, That is STILL a problem huh? It's a tough one to solve sometimes...especially when you have as
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 30 15:24:12 EDT 1999 | Kevin Hussey
| Ok folk's has anyone used Alpha Metal's UP78 solder paste ? | | Our place is looking to move to that as the way to go, getting rid of the Hereaus 362's and Alpha 737's of the current set up. | | My question's are really : | how is the printabilit
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 16 18:27:34 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 of it
