Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 12 12:48:23 EST 2005 | guest
Try scoring the underside of the pallet every inch or so, perpendicular to direction of travel
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 12 19:48:41 EST 2005 | chad
Sue, What is the material your pallet is made of?? Are your thru pocket openings beveled??
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 12 10:05:37 EST 2005 | SuePH
Help!! Just got some new wave solder pallets in house. The pallets are 12 by 8 inches solid composite, with only two 1/2 inch by 1 inch spots cut out for the connectors. When they go over the wave, the solder wants to cling to the bottom of the pal
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 12 15:32:08 EST 2005 | SuePH
Thanks for the replies. I use a foam fluxor, so the pallet is well fluxed. This is my first expierence with this thick of a pallet. Maybe Russ has a handle on it when he says that the wave height is just too high.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 12 13:57:28 EST 2005 | russ
Are you positive that the solder is sticking to the bottom of the fixture OR is it pushing the wave down so far that the solder is "squirting" out from underneath the pallet. This happens when deep/thick pallets are run at the same wave height as a n
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 13 10:24:35 EST 2005 | SuePH
The pallets are made of a black composite that is 5MM thick, and yes, the bottom is beveled to the cut out space for the connectors. The wave solder machine is a Treiber, so the wave height is hand set. I always aim for the center of the leading edg
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 12 21:37:04 EST 2005 | KEN
How thick is this pallet? 6mm, 8mm, 10mm? I would look at: Make sure you're pot height is correct (lead clearance). If you are burrying the pallet in the fountain, your going to "push" a large volume away. The solder "push" should not plow over t
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 12 16:11:26 EST 2005 | russ
I have seen the solder shoot out at least 4"-6" from both the leading and trailing edge when this happens. If the open pockets are real deep you may want to use a turbulent/chip wave for soldering, sometimes this leaves bridges however.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 12 12:11:51 EST 2005 | Grant
Hi, Are you coating the bottom of the palette with flux? What's the material of the palette. I have not seen that, but we did have some weird problems when we did not add flux on a virgin palette, but once it dirtied up a little it was ok. We had
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 07 09:20:27 EST 2016 | sumote
If you have some budget left over from buying the machine, contact the guys at Pentagon EMS. They build a bullet-proof wave pallet. They can make a board specific, for each assembly, or a generic-adjustable one that can be used for most boards. I can
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