Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 17 21:01:21 EST 2000 | Dave F
Dennis: On your BGAs: * Never seen voids any place other than the top ... lower density stuff rises. * Our spec on voids says: 1 Voids 1a Voids in soldered balls shall be less than 20% of the diameter of the solder ball. 1b No void shall sho
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 12 08:24:03 EDT 2002 | davef
Tough. 0402 capacitors are more prone to tomb stoning than resistors. Tailor your process to the 0402 and let the other stuff fall where it falls. Search the fine SMTnet archives for discussion on tomb stoning. Consider: * Changing paste. * Apply
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 27 12:27:03 EST 2003 | ksfacinelli
We have an assembly that requires a number of high density connectors to be placed after SMD. The process will not allow a normal wave solder setup due to the population of SMD comps. We cannot use a selective solder pallet due to profiles. We are
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 27 13:26:47 EST 2004 | HOSS
Need some feedback here. We're running a foam fluxer using WS chemistry (AIM 715M). We have been running almost exclusively .062 and a few .093" PCBs but we've recently started running some boards that are .100 and .125 thickness and are having tro
Electronics Forum | Fri May 27 17:21:35 EDT 2005 | mrclean
Dear SM Rookies, Another acceptable test method is visual inspection. IPC-A-610 details what to look for with different contaminants, providing magnified pictures of the possible visual residues. With an existing cleaning process, magnification
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 15 15:53:14 EST 2008 | jmelson
I only build my own products, so it has to meet my needs for QA only. I am doing some 20 mil lead pitch (0.5mm) and will soon be doing a 0.4 mm pitch part. I have more magnification on my microscopes (40X) but almost never need to go that high. If
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 24 19:14:44 EDT 1999 | Mike Konrad
Very good questions Bob� Given the fact that my company is a manufacturer of batch cleaning equipment, I will speak more in general terms rather than in specific terms. There are several criteria used in the evaluation of batch aqueous cleaning sys
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 22 22:18:12 EDT 2004 | davef
Notes from an AIM No-Lead Presentation ... Wave Soldering * May require a higher pot temperature than tin/lead: 255-265*C * May require a change in liquid fluxes to compensate for the poor wetting of some alloys and high thermal stresses of the wave
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 19 12:45:05 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| I have an Electrovert Ultrapak 445 Wavesolder machine with 3 IR preheat zones and a single wave with omega wave. | I want to run a DOE (Taguchi) to determine the optimum settings for soldering both single-sided and | double-sided boards. Can any
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 13 08:54:43 EST 1998 | justin medernach
| Hi , | I have not been able to find any good description on how to perform double sided reflow on PCBs.The best would of course be to avoid reflowing the bottom side again but in real life this is not possible. | So when double sided reflow sol
