Electronics Forum | Tue May 14 08:04:58 EDT 2002 | robbied
Hi. Does anyone out there know of a way to calculate the surface area of populated PCB's? We build many different types, and until now have been using a water displacement method, which I believe to be fundamentally flawed. Our technique is to drop a
Electronics Forum | Tue May 14 11:52:04 EDT 2002 | Claude_Couture
Excuse me, but if I remember my physics lessons well, volume is what the water displacement measures, not mass. therefore, if you take the volume of water displaced by your populated PCB, divide it by the thickness of the PCB (which is easy to measur
Electronics Forum | Tue May 14 13:18:33 EDT 2002 | Scott B
I think what David was getting at was, as an example. Take a cubic inch of gold. Surface area = 6 sq/in. Volume = 1 cu/in. Water displacement = X. Mass = Y Roll that cube of gold out to a micron thick. Surface area = football pitch. Volume = 1 cu/i
Electronics Forum | Fri May 17 14:46:29 EDT 2002 | Claude_Couture
in both samples the water displacement is 1 cubic inch of water since the volume is the same. the first has a thickness of 1 inch, the second has a thickness of a few microns. if you know the volume and one of the lengh, width or thickness, you can c
Electronics Forum | Tue May 14 13:19:23 EDT 2002 | stefwitt
Claude is right, however, this may work: Dip the empty board in paint and let the access paint drip off. Measure the volume of the paint before and after. Dip a populated board and measure how much more paint was required in percent. Measure the surf
Electronics Forum | Tue May 14 20:43:55 EDT 2002 | davef
I feel as though I�ve just walked in to a bar, where everyone I was supposed to meet has been drinking for 3 hours. First, the volume of water displacement thing doesn�t make sense, as others have commented. Second, I believe Dave Robbie wants meas
Electronics Forum | Fri May 17 03:04:15 EDT 2002 | Mike Konrad
This conversation reminds me of the old �How Many Engineers Does It Take To�� joke. We manufacturer the ionic contamination (ROSE, SEC) testers and I am not aware of anyone that performs such exacting surface area calculations. Most people use th
Electronics Forum | Fri May 17 12:23:38 EDT 2002 | Hussman69
A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am." The wom
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 25 13:55:05 EDT 2014 | horchak
Ok lets put it this way. If the PCB house used a high quality mask and properly applied it to a properly cleaned surface and properly cured it, then as Dave stated above there are only two things that can destroy it. Excessive heat and overly aggress
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 25 13:54:28 EDT 2017 | emeto
Check your exhaust points and cooling zones. Cooling zones should have filters that need to be cleaned and it is most probably where your problem comes from. In front(if you have two exhaust pipes) you might need a filter change as well.
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