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 | Wed Jan 27 23:29:28 EST 1999 | parag palshikar
| | i am working with the noclean process and getting white residues on the bottomside of the board probably due to the | | wave soldering flux.i am using a no-clean solder paste and a noclean wave solder flux.The boards passed the accelerated tempe
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 29 05:14:06 EST 1999 | Graham Naisbitt
Hi guys, I really am at a loss to understand this one. It would appear that there may be some reaction between the flux and the resist? Or maybe you have an OSP on the board that is reacting during soldering? As a fast fix, maybe you should try a
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 10 12:52:21 EST 1999 | Dick Casagrande
|I'm getting in a little late on this but my 2 cents is: We have been using no-clean flux for a few years now but up till last month were still cleaning (the white residue) our boards (all thru hole). Finally did some investigation and found the flux
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 03 08:22:36 EST 1998 | Scott Cook
| 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 pro
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 03 19:04:02 EST 1998 | Steve Gregory
Hi Jacqueline! The dreaded white residue huh? YUCK! This seems to be a ongoing issue...probably because there are many different things that can possibly cause this. There's a real good article about the different causes of this problem at Kest
Electronics Forum | Sun Apr 05 18:59:15 EDT 1998 | Graham Naisbitt
Jaqueline There are so many variables in the electronic assembly manufacturing process involving more than 12 different chemistries, that it is impossible to easily identify and determine the nature and reason of such residues. GEC Hirst Research in
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 | Fri Sep 22 16:45:32 EDT 2000 | Casimir Budzinski
It realy depends on what no-clean you use, I had on that would get under IC's and not get fully activated it was fine here in the states but when it was shipped over seas the salt air and humidity gave us fits, another we used didnt have that problem
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 27 21:02:53 EST 1999 | Dave F
| i am working with the noclean process and getting white residues on the bottomside of the board probably due to the | wave soldering flux.i am using a no-clean solder paste and a noclean wave solder flux.The boards passed the accelerated temperatu