Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 16 11:03:35 EDT 2004 | davef
Your copper corrosion is not good. It indicates that you have not done a good job in cleaning. [We assume this is a medium green color, not unlike the color of the solder mask on your board, that is almost like a translucent lacquer; rather than th
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 13 20:55:11 EST 2000 | Dave F
Not too much to go on, bud. Tell us about: * Wire material, finish, insultation, etc * Wetting problem description * Why feed that the wire is used for through is important * Range and extent of the problem * Results of metallographic analysis of "g
Electronics Forum | Tue May 16 07:44:42 EDT 2006 | Chunks
Hi smtspecialist (man I gotta get me a name soon), NO! Your oven cannot contaminate your process. Unless you have flux residues dripping on your board, there is nothing to worry about. Now having your operators switch from leaded to lead-free smo
Electronics Forum | Sun May 21 19:18:52 EDT 2006 | grantp
Hi, I think you should be ok, as the contamination in a reflow oven is generally flux from what I have seen. I have never heard to the solder metals itself being inside the oven apart from some paste in hole we did that sometimes dropped a bit of so
Electronics Forum | Tue May 16 08:42:12 EDT 2006 | smtspecialist
Thanks Chunks, I do have a very good maintenance done on a monthly basis to clean the accumulation of flux and I never saw nothing dripping, the operators says sometimes that I'm a bit too picky on the cleaning but that's the key to impress customer
Electronics Forum | Thu May 18 08:12:22 EDT 2006 | marc
smt You should have no issue using your exsisting oven for both leaded and lead free materials if the machine is capable of delivering the desired profiles. One aspect that makes a "lead free" oven is the design of the system. Ability to reach th
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 03 07:43:52 EST 2005 | davef
Questions are: * Is the problem 'wire bonds that don't stick' or 'wire bonds that fall or break off later'? * What materials are you working with? * What is your working time after plasma clean? * What does surface analysis tell you about surface con
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 03 02:34:46 EST 2005 | Rosewood
We've recently encountered some problems with wire bond strengths. I'm looking for anybody that has had some experience with different types of substrate contamination and methods for cleaning. There is no visible contamination on the gold pads, bu
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 03 12:48:14 EST 2005 | Rosewood
We have some no sticks, but that is actually a good thing because we have NSD. During process control audits we found that pull strengths to the board dropped off. We build a military application that requires higher bond strenghts. Low pull streg
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 25 21:45:22 EDT 2024 | buckeye
I got an inquiry from one of our electronics labs with regards to their soldering processes. They use eutectic (63% Sn, 37% Pb) solder. For liquid flux they are currently using Kester 186, which is an old-school, full rosin (RMA and ROL1) flux that c
