Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 08 12:02:15 EST 2001 | slthomas
After reading the variety of responses, I feel moved to ask if you're you talking about what are occasionally referred to as solder beads (mid-chip solder balls, attached to the waste line of your chip caps and resistors) or the solder balls that ten
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 11 14:55:23 EST 1999 | Dave F
Dave: I think you�re correct. The solder balls are probably from either: � Excessive paste � OR � Paste "exploding/popping" during reflow � OR � Some other variable. Two things: 1 It�s virtually impossible to determine the cause of your ball gen
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 09 13:46:34 EDT 2002 | dragonslayr
Your lack of obvious solder balls indicates you have a decent process. However, there are still small solder balls that are free and floating on the surface of the boards prior to wash. That same solder ball is washed off and ends up in the wash solu
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 05 11:36:30 EST 2002 | William Guatemala
Have you check the flux gravity lately? If not, Check the flux gravity every 6 hours to make sure proper parameters are meet. Here is a list of things that may cause your solder ball problems; Excecive heat, defective fixtures, preheating temperature
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 27 16:49:16 EDT 2004 | davef
Where blank are the balls on a BGA supposed be? UNDERNEITH, dammit!!! Fire that inspector. It's good that you have your balls imbedded in something, so that they are not rolling around. Beyond that, consider the five ball system! - No more than
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 08 10:32:39 EDT 2004 | C Lampron
Good Day Everyone, I have a Class 3 medical customer where we are seeing solder balls adjacent to the fine pitch device leads post reflow. We are processing these with OA so small amounts of solder balls usually wash of at clean. These however, are
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 07 09:03:15 EST 2005 | Chunks
This paste does tend to solder ball - but short of changing paste you can change your stencil to accommodate it. First, why 10 mils? Seems very thick. What size parts are your working with? Typically you can �homeplate� the R�s and C�s and this
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 29 11:05:10 EDT 2005 | foresiteeric
davef: I am a colleague of Sara at Foresite and we came to the conclusion that the solder balls were entrapped based on the minimal amount of information from the original question and the fact that the x-ray showed the balls and it wasn't mentioned
Electronics Forum | Fri May 26 16:24:45 EDT 2006 | Jak
Due to spacing issue, we are considering using power bricks with tin/lead solder ball instead of PTH package. The solder ball is 40 mil diameter. Our CM suggested they do hand place since the pick and place nozzle cannot pick up and hold the part due
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 12 13:40:08 EDT 2008 | ck_the_flip
GR@ICS: Are you drag soldering or point-to-point soldering? Keep in mind. Drag soldering mimics wave soldering. Molten solder is contacting and dragging across the solder mask. Keep in mind, too, that "semi-matt" or "semi-gloss" will also tend to
