Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 06 08:36:26 EDT 1998 | Steve Schrader
| What should a good gold joint look like? We've run boards for our customers that look kinda dull but seemed to wet properly and the boards fired up just nicely! Should they look nice and shiny like our HASL boards or is "a shiny joint is a good joi
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 06 12:05:56 EDT 1998 | Srirama T. Reddy
| | What should a good gold joint look like? We've run boards for our customers that look kinda dull but seemed to wet properly and the boards fired up just nicely! Should they look nice and shiny like our HASL boards or is "a shiny joint is a good j
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 28 07:27:32 EDT 2005 | Matt Kehoe
We are experiencing a situation that we would really appreciate some expert opinions on. Our process prints solder paste then reflows it without components. Normally the paste wicks into a very shiny rounded meniscus. Even over gold, the round pads a
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 13 17:03:40 EDT 1998 | EFData
We are having some difficulty soldering a 240 pin Altera device. We use Alpha WS-609, a very generic profile for that solder paste, and a 6 mil stencil with laser cut apertures (1:1 ratio). This is a 20 mil pitch device (aperture size is 10 mils X 75
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 06 19:46:08 EST 2001 | davef
First, we�re assuming that we�re talking hot air solder leveled [HASL] bare boards, eh? Consider using A-600 - Acceptability of Printed Boards as the basis for discussing the bare board problems. It is the bare board analog of A-610 - Acceptability
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 15 07:59:07 EST 2005 | mattkehoe
We are looking for some feedback on this situation. Please let us know if you have any ideas. Thanks in advance. I have been doing some studies on defects and such with our PCB's in prep for lead free and I've come to a conclusion about our process.
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 14 15:14:31 EDT 2008 | samir
Dean, thanks for schooling me on this. I talked to an industry collegue whom I met at APEX, and it was he who had told me of the IAg "rework issue." Basically, he told me that they had field failures on QFPs that were a direct result of trying to "
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 30 18:22:40 EST 2007 | mika
Hi Paul M, There are no silly questions but silly answers.. and here is maybe a few if I understand you correctly: If you consider place anything less than a 1.27mm (50mil) pitch component down or a chip less than a 1210, hey it maybe don't even work
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 01 11:19:50 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| I'm having a problem getting good reflow on gold sufaced boards. The profile looks good and I have adjusted it both hotter and colder and adjusted the various times ( soak, reflow ) to no avail. What realy gets me Is that a month ago we built some
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 14 09:38:07 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| We are having some difficulty soldering a 240 pin Altera device. We use Alpha WS-609, a very generic profile for that solder paste, and a 6 mil stencil with laser cut apertures (1:1 ratio). This is a 20 mil pitch device (aperture size is 10 mils X