Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 20 10:26:07 EDT 2006 | samir
Chunks, I used to work in power electronics, and we had this design engineer who used to "blow moisture" on the high-impedance circuit and test for cleanliness. We were water washing in a OA-Water Soluble environment. He was convinced that there w
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 12 11:35:27 EDT 2004 | Pierre RICHARD
Here are some answers to my questions after a good research. I also added more definitions that could help understand this esoteric language used in assembly, specially surrounding fluxes and their use. In blue italics are comments and extracts from
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 20 20:02:06 EST 2002 | davef
Surfactant. A synthetic detergent made from petrochemicals that lowers the surface tension of water and allows better cleaning in small spaces. Do you have a cleaning issue that requires you to use a surfactant? If so, be aware that you must clean
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 04 10:29:10 EDT 2010 | 18424
Hello all, Has anyone used Kester 2331-ZX water soluble flux on selective soldering and expirienced a white film after soldering. I have seen this on and off for a few weeks now and believe it is a chemical reaction with the solder mask or improperly
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 15 03:30:10 EST 1999 | Jeff Sanchez
| Hi all, | | I thought I'd use this forum to ask a couple general questions on fluxes for manual operations: | First - Is it OK to use a wave soldering type flux (specifically OA)? Thinking about activation temperatures and the ramp rate of the wav
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 05 11:52:01 EDT 2007 | rgduval
We just tested AMTECH's LF4300 with good results. Excellent reflow/profiling capabilities, good processing. And decent cleaning. I say decent cleaning, because we did run into a small issue. While using Qualitek's LF paste, we experienced a lot o
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 19 01:17:13 EST 2001 | ianchan
Hi Experts, I need help here, advice appreciated from all... Production is running a Lot of flex-circuit PCB, through the SMT line, with 0402 components. The flex-PCB is taped to FR4 support "pallets" when processing thru' the SMT P&P m/c. We use
Electronics Forum | Tue May 16 15:30:07 EDT 2006 | George
Hi John, Are you talking about cleaning the pallets after running to store them? or during production? well in any case...I recently started to use this cleaning solution "Cybersolv" from Kyzen. It is water soluble and also can be used instead of IP
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 05 17:06:36 EDT 2000 | Michael Parker
Patrick- You have not given enought detail of the type of discoloration. Is it "white residue"? Can it be "rust" colored? Whatever it is, you fab supplier needs to be called in immediately and give you an exact reason for this failure. Just rubbing
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 17 22:41:37 EDT 2005 | davef
Peter are you having fun with solder masks erwat? We saw this years ago with LPI solder masks. It shows occasionally with other masks. We agree with Russ. If nothing [eg, alcohol, flux thinner, acetonitrile, or water] dissolves the haze, then it
