Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 27 15:13:26 EST 2005 | jbrower
Hi Tom, Thanks for the compliment. I've been researching and planning for the time that my company would go lead free since late in 1999. I hear you there, how do we know that the component is lead free. Baring a leap of faith with your vendors, I
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 06 22:30:12 EST 2006 | mainenetservices
We have a customer transitioning slowly to lead free due to necessity rather than a need to comply i.e. some of their BGAs can only be purchased Pb free only. So for this we would want to produce them a leadfree soldered PCB (not necessarly RoHS comp
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 19 04:42:37 EDT 2006 | Loco
There are plenty of studies on this subject. If the BGA can handle the extra temperature and they are soldered on a leadfree profile, the general result seems to be a better reliability than Pb :) Just out of the top of my head, there was a link to
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 28 09:47:06 EDT 2005 | fctassembly
Hello Carl, The main reason there is little information on lead free soldering to ENIG is because most of the lead free soldering to date has been Japanese consumer products. To keep costs down, the major surface coating used has been OSP copper. It
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 19 11:02:17 EDT 2013 | hegemon
If there is only a single lead free BGA on the BOM, I would suggest a "hybrid" profile. Use regular solderpaste (SN63/pb37) and peak your temperature at around 225C. Allow a bit longer TAL to let the two solders co-mingle at the BGA joints. You are
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 05 17:53:04 EST 2005 | KEN
I hate to sound like a broken record but the industry has been placing lead free through-hole parts forever. Now all of a sudden its a problem??? Gold finish, silver, silver paladium, alloy 42, even pure copper. Reliability will be a function of t
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 06 16:31:41 EST 2015 | jacklucas
In switching to lead free processing, we find ourselves having over 400 PCB part numbers with Sn63 HASL finish. And there is no hope of quickly purging inventory and getting our drawings changed to call out a lead free finish. I want to avoid having
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 01 09:29:03 EDT 2004 | patrickbruneel
Hi Ken, It looks like you have some solid practical experience in the transition from leaded to lead-free soldering. I hope you don�t mind me asking a question. With conventional soldering we have a library of workmanship standards available (SMT,
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 24 13:04:17 EST 2006 | patrickbruneel
Hi All, The change over to lead-free is as easy or as difficult as you want to make it The big problem I see with this lead-free transition is that there is no benchmark of acceptability and no defect data (yet) related to visual appearance of a sol
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 13 22:48:11 EDT 2004 | Ken
I assumed the balls were tin/silver 221C or tin/silver/copper 218C liquiduous....but, this is obviously not the case. It looks like you balls are almost pure tin (mp=238C) You are correct. This is exactly the same as using 10/90 high temp balls o
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