Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 18 02:10:14 EDT 2009 | sergey2007
Hello, I have a customer who recentely installed a vapor phase soldering system. Everything goes pretty well, but from time to time the customer has the same problem with the soldering: one of the components on PCB (usually, it's a QFP package) is ro
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 26 03:21:00 EDT 2009 | sergey2007
Hi Graham, the MSD level of the component is 3. I am not sure that my customer properly stored the component before the soldering process. And I am not sure that it was dried at all. The customer says they did everything that they had to, but I just
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 24 11:17:19 EDT 2009 | stepheniii
Don't make that assumption. Once we had concerns about PCB's not matching what was ordered. I said "if we got HASL instead of ENIG, how do we know we got lead-free?" I mean if one thing got mixed up in translation, maybe two did. So we put a bare P
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 26 05:13:01 EDT 2009 | grahamcooper22
Hi, as you are using Vapour phase reflow what temperature is the boiling point of the solvent you are using ? If it is @ 250 C then you should be getting everything hot enough to melt the ball and solder paste together. If this is the case then your
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 03 13:07:35 EDT 2009 | markhoch
Can one of you fine people provide me any history on Westek or Westkleen Batch Cleaners? Does anyone know if either of these companies are still in business? Are they, or were they, the same company? Is anyone still using their cleaners? If so, what
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 18 09:18:06 EDT 2009 | ysutariya
Also, it wouldn't hurt to perform SERA testing to determine the amount of free tin to begin with. From what I remember, I think you need 30 microinches of free tin to ensure success. XRF won't give you an accurate thickness reading as it counts the
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 17 11:19:57 EDT 2009 | jdumont
Does anyone have a reference to a spec for this? We have a tall SMT IC that we coat with AR coating in a Asymtek spray coating machine. We do not have the angle head option to spray from a 45 so the sides of tall parts are sometimes left uncovered.
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 22 10:29:18 EDT 2009 | stepheniii
To how many decimal places? Do you want to have a factor for different screen printer operators? There is no such formula and I doubt there ever will be one with any real accuracy. The stencil house might be able to tell you the total area of the
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 23 08:17:46 EDT 2009 | kpm135
I've run into mysterious light curtain errors before and what was happening was when the head moved across the top of the components one of the clear tape covers would flutter up and trigger the curtain then it would settle back down on top of the ta
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 25 16:47:57 EDT 2009 | esoderberg
0.5mm pitch QFP's are typically mixed with large components on all of my boards. I usually use a 6 mil stencil with a minimum aperture width of 10 mils. Normal aperture size is 10 x 50 which causes shorts about 20% of the time. A recent purchase of
