Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 02 07:42:30 EDT 2010 | jdengler
Will the flux residue from solder paste A come into contact with flux from solder paste B? If so you better do some tests. There is always a possibility of a bad reaction between 2 fluxes. You need to test to make sure. Jerry
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 01 16:22:47 EDT 2010 | jax
Who Cares... Mix Away! Although you should not mix different Solder Pastes' together in a container or on a stencil (Mostly due to the flux, although solder sphere size and shape could cause an issue), mixing solder brands or chemistries on a board
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 01 02:56:18 EDT 2011 | grahamcooper22
the cause could be moisture in your pcbs. To check it...pass some bare pcbs through your reflow oven (this is a simple way of drying them out a bit), then paste and place and reflow as normal....if solder beads disappear then the pcbs have too much m
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 05 10:39:20 EDT 2011 | tkirk
Thanks! That definitely seemed to help. TK
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 06 04:18:03 EDT 2011 | emmanueldavid
TK, Hope you got it right only for this round of assemblies. Well, passing through a Reflow belt is not an ultimate process to dry circuit cards & take out moisture from Solder finished layers. First of all, if the packs were not unsealed (even s
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 05 11:59:41 EDT 2011 | grahamcooper22
maybe the pcbs need a proper dry (the quick dry in the reflow oven won't get all the moisture out )...maybe 125 C for 4 hours or speak to the manufacturer to get their recommendations.
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 08 20:37:09 EDT 2011 | tkirk
Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for your help. We will do a long bake for all future PCBs ordered from this vendor. TK
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 31 20:16:31 EDT 2011 | tkirk
We recently decided to try using a different source for our bare boards to save money. On two different batches of PCBs now from the new source, we are seeing beading including some serious enough to short out underneath 0805 parts. We have never re
Electronics Forum | Thu May 13 21:24:16 EDT 2010 | davef
Jacki: That's exactly what we need to know, so that we can start slogging through this. [See we don't do well with broad, generalized questions. We don't have time to write dissertations. This is a task-oriented group.] Let's focus further: * Is
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 10 09:17:50 EDT 2004 | davef
The thermal recipe you use is dependant primarily on the solder paste that you choose.
