Electronics Forum | Mon May 13 16:20:10 EDT 2002 | ian
Are you refering to MacDermid Sterling Silver finish or immersion silver in general. We have had enquiries about Sterling Silver from a customer and the blurb I have read looks very good (don't most sales literature). Has anyone tried this finish? O
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 29 19:47:44 EDT 2021 | emeto
"For the lead free soldering of electronic assemblies, the inclusion of silver in the alloy results in better wetting compared to non-silver containing alloys and also allows for a broader process window. Silver also improves joint reliab
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 27 09:09:36 EST 2006 | davef
Silver on your copper or brass part is a solderability protection. The silver diffuses into the solder and you solder to the base metal, either the copper or brass in your case. Soldering to copper is well known. The issues are soldering to brass
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 25 13:53:28 EST 1999 | Bob Willis
| | | Your problem may be related to silver migration (leaching) into the solder. I had what seems to be a similar problem. The solution was using solder with 2% silver content. See these pages for a bit more information: | | | | http://www.ferr
Electronics Forum | Mon May 03 09:42:45 EDT 1999 | Mike McMonagle
| Tombstoning 0805s w/palladium/platinum/silver terminations | | We are experiencing tombstoning problems on 0805 packages that have paladium/platinum/silver terminations. It comes & goes...... | | I�ve checked the reflow profile, and paste deposi
Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 06 09:20:03 EDT 2004 | michaeljm
My department and I have been working with immersion silver on and off for about four years and we have compiled quite a bit of data for the Alpha and MacDermid immersion silver chemistries. We have not encountered any assembly or storage related is
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 21 20:41:32 EST 2003 | Raul
It is a common knowledge that sulphur and immersion silver finish on a PCB do not go together very well. We are seeing peaks of sulphur on some of our assemblies (with silver finish) and as expected we experience severe difficulties with processing t
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 14 21:42:13 EDT 2001 | davef
2% silver will be a little shinier. [Some inspectors hate that.] After that differences get murkier. Some people believe that 2% silver does something er other to scavange gold and silver to produce a less brittle connection. We have never seen ev
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 18 10:20:14 EDT 2007 | ck_the_flip
Grant, i have heard of a few cases where the PCB is "reworked" by the PCB house, where the immersion silver that did not wet to the base copper was reworked by just putting immersion silver on top of the non-wetted immersion silver. I know your PCB
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 27 18:28:29 EDT 2008 | blnorman
We have an immersion silver board that has a brown discoloration after processing. It's not flux residue, that normally doesn't cause this condition. Elemental analysis shows less than 1% sulfur, and I thought silver sulfide is more a black color.
