Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 12 10:01:43 EDT 2007 | realchunks
Hi aj, Pete is right, there are several variables that can affect your quality when it comes to stencil design. A good idea is to have a stencil made with various designs incorporated into it. A lot of engineers like the reverse homeplate design.
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 13 19:08:55 EDT 2001 | mparker
Home plate apertures are designed to reduce or eliminate solder balls that occur when placing a chip and reflow of the solder. This aperture type is usually desired when processing with a "no-clean" solder paste. The design of the aperture is usually
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 08 08:20:52 EST 2014 | emeto
To most of our boards I give 20-30% tolerance in both directions. From experience if you have big aperture on your stencil, the squeegee will scoop certain amount of paste from this aperture and you will see lower height. Depending on your board supp
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 22 08:40:12 EST 2005 | JB
A couple of features on your stencil printer that should help with a couple of potential printing processes: A temperature control unit and the automatic understencil cleaning with the chemical of your choice. That alone, will reduce the chances of
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 08 20:15:25 EST 2010 | davef
What is the solids content of your solder? 50%??? Then, theoretically, if the aperture is 1:1, you'll have 2 thou of solder on your pads.
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 21 04:04:21 EST 2005 | abhirami
1.67 always on the sample boards measured. This is very fast and pretty good measurement for a paste dispense control. Boards do not stand out-side for long times. Inspect the height for critical components only, in the initial stages. Once your Cpk
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 02 05:14:07 EST 2005 | ABHI
Guys, Solder paste height worries all of us as we encounter the non wets after reflow. More so in fine pitch QFP's. The non wets are not always caused by solder paste height. Many other contributors. Even the pad geometry on te board can contribute t
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 21 02:02:54 EST 2005 | JSS
First of all THANKS for thr reply. I totally agree with u that paste dried,stencil aperture clogged like probs comes during the production but we hv a visual inspection stage (with 5X illuminated lamp)after printing process and before inserting the
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 18 17:29:14 EDT 2018 | emeto
Can you send me a screenshot to see how it looks or a spreadsheet of the data? Do you have to modify anything on your own? Can you do it for some selected components/apertures or it has to be on the whole PCB? Any further info will be appreciated.
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 29 14:47:36 EST 1997 | justin medernach
| how to determine the optimum solder paste height ? Ray, This is a gross misconception within the industry. There is no optimum solder paste height, per say. The effectiveness of a solder joint should be quantified in volume. Use your process as
