Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 10 11:36:03 EST 2014 | rgduval
One thing you could check/monitor is the temperature in the pot/wave. As boards run across the wave, they will cause fluctuations in the wave temperature. The heaters should hep with minimizing this; but, if you're running a lot of boards in quick
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 15 21:55:41 EST 2014 | padawanlinuxero
we do that and there's a variation on the solder temp. sometimes around 10 degrees, we have 2 solder pallets that are run in intervals of roughly 3 1/2 minutes a part (the time that take the operator to put all 3 terminals in a 42 pcbs per board, and
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 13 18:21:54 EST 2014 | vwhipple
A little confusion here. Are you running several boards in one pallet and the last boards are looking poor or is the issue getting worse as the day progresses (like as the pallets get warm)? - If it is the last boards in the pallet, then you may wan
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 21 13:51:19 EST 2014 | rgduval
Armando, Is the problem in the same spot on the board with every run? If so, there might be something about that particular location that is part of the cause (ie. ground or power plane connection). It sounds like you're seeing blow holes, or insu
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 28 06:39:29 EDT 2009 | sachu_70
I had seen such effect caused by the wave itself, where the exposed wave surface was coated by a thin dull oxide layer which then adhered to the bottom side of PCB during wave soldering. You could verify if the wave surface is clean metal when the P
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 01 17:39:58 EST 2013 | davef
The LF wave solder solder alloy that marketing-types of other LF wave solder alloys compare themselves to is Nihon Superior SN100C
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 10 15:10:12 EDT 2009 | mefloump
This has some good iinformation for wave solder defects... http://www.trafalgar2.com/troubleshooter/wave_soldering.htm
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 29 03:32:57 EDT 2009 | dilogic
We recently started to use wave-soldering. As total newbies in that field, we got successful results most of the time. Howewer, this batch of PCB's had a lot of resdiue, as shown on the picture. Most of it is most likely flux, but on some areas even
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 09 08:04:52 EST 2002 | erhard
if you wave solder you have to glue the SMD parts on the bottom side. If you reflow the bottom side then you usually shouln't go over the wave afterwards. It's quite logical the joints melt again, that's what you want to achieve going over the wave.
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 27 04:18:55 EDT 2004 | Nippy
Hello, Is it possible to put polystyrene caps through the wave solder process ? We have always hand soldered these as temperature sensitive parts but would rather include them with other PTH parts through the wave solder. Manufacturer was little h
