Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 18 23:24:50 EST 2006 | grantp
Hi, Yes, I would hate to resort to cleaning, but the product must be clean. We have been using palettes to keep most of the flux off the PCB, but there is still residue around the connectors. Does anyone suggest a good no clean flux to use with le
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 19 16:26:24 EST 2006 | samir
Grant, Newer lead-free fluxes have 6%-10% solids content - more activator, therefore leave more "visible" residues. Old technology tin-lead fluxes got down to as low as around the 4%-6% range (I'm going off memory, so me might be wrong)... You'll
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 19 09:41:26 EST 2008 | slthomas
ECD sells the MOLE, and they sell both the Oven Rider and the Wave Rider to accompany it. The thing is, you can profile both an oven and a wave machine without either if you're willing to just solder your thermocouples to a board. The nice thing ab
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 18 14:12:40 EDT 2013 | pjchonis
Hello Bachman. SAC305 is the most common lead-free solder alloy, not only for wave soldering but also selective. Most of our selective customers (especially automotive) are using SAC305. What is more important than the alloy to consider is the flux
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 24 08:26:41 EST 2005 | GS
Thank you, very intersting. Seen they've experimented also Sn Cu Ni on wave solder. Rgards............GS
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 24 15:28:17 EST 2008 | edmentzer
We use SN100C for wave soldering and hand Lead free soldering and have had very good results. The wire cored solder for hand soldering flows good and makes very good solder joints. The SN100C in the wave solder machine also works very good. We use
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 17 13:13:49 EST 2005 | Mike
Hello, Some questions.... Are you running lead free? What alloy? What�s your pot temp at? Temp of the board after preheat? Are you getting any solder in the barrels (
Electronics Forum | Wed May 21 15:52:24 EDT 2008 | samir
Wow RealChunks! What happened to that firey b#tchey Asian temper of yours? :-) Speak your mind and forever hold your peace! Here's what I know about Lead-Free Wave Soldering: 1.) Hotter pot 2.) Longer dwells Good info. on fluxes, by the way.
Electronics Forum | Fri May 23 18:55:20 EDT 2008 | gregoryyork
This is one of the biggest mistakes with the Lead Free process. We have all listened to the 'industry experts' and followed their advice and unfortunately got it wrong. Keep the dwell times (dependant on alloy selection) the same as Leaded so you are
Electronics Forum | Thu May 22 14:44:10 EDT 2008 | samir
Does your top-side preheat NEED to be that high, and so high that you are exceeding the flux manufacturers' spec? If so, what is the reason? Top-side wetting? Are you measuring this temperature at the substrate or solder joint?
