Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 01 03:03:08 EST 2002 | madreindeer
Hi, That is very common in WS pastes.It is white residue (Salt) Usually it�s not dangerous it only looking bad. I think best way would be contact your paste supplier and they should know what would take a stain off if not, change supplier. There i
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 26 12:16:44 EDT 2012 | bwjm
Hi Guys,recently i am facing an issue. Refer to the attached photo. This PCB is high RF speed, gold immersion single layer. After reflow, my solder seems to have black stains on it. I tried with SAC305 paste water soluble and no-clean, both results a
Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 19 02:25:37 EST 2002 | ianchan
Hi, Have a board run, using 63/37 Water Souble (WS) process. during the reflow setup time, we had unsolder issues on a leadless bump chip carrier (BCC) IC level package. To rectify the unsolder rejects, we adjusted the reflow time from 25-55sec into
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 12 12:30:16 EST 2015 | stevezeva
I remembered something from the TechNet a long time ago about heating the board with a heat gun to see if the white spots disappear. I searched the archives and found this from Bill Kenyon: Quick identification of solder mask white spots- if it is t
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 01 14:12:50 EST 2000 | Jim M.
My company currently uses water soluble paste for our SMT process. We were having trouble retaining hot water in our in line, closed loop DI cleaner. The cleaner kept shutting down when the water temp. dropped below 125C. As a result, the conveyor
Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 10 23:49:17 EDT 2001 | Robert Sykoh
No-clean is definitely a cheaper process. It will eliminte cleaning. Some issues associated with no-clean are: -- the flux stain left behind on the PCB will create a cosmetic issue. You may want to seek advice from your customers. -- next, the flux
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 03 02:52:42 EST 1998 | Jacqueline Coia
At this moment in time we are using water soluble solder paste on our PCBs these are cleaned using water only, agitated with ultrasonics. After drying a white/grey residue is left around solder joints. Reflow profile is fine and a reliable wash proce
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 08 10:29:15 EST 2007 | jaime39
The water soluble flux residue is staying there because the rinsing temperature it may be too low. The flux needs about 130-140 degrees celcius to become soft. If you are using water soluble flux, as per IPC A 610 standards it needs to be remove comp
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 08 05:41:49 EST 2004 | kanwal324
Hello I thind you are same Mr. Scott from whom once i had purchased inspection system in M/s Evershine India. Regarding your query, we want to inform you that we are mounting BGA with water solubel flux (special flux paste) from alpha metals and the
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 27 20:33:50 EST 2006 | greg york
water alone especially cold is not good enough, how do you check for hasl fluids when most residues left behind after improper cleaning are non ionic. Use 40C saponifier followed by heated rinse then cold rinse then DI rinse followed by dry.Nylon bru
