Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 15 14:09:48 EDT 2010 | richardli
We found stains on the boards come out of reflow oven. The board itself color changed to yellowish from white . We understand discolor soldermask due to high temperature. This can be acceptable by our customer not the stains. The stains look like wa
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 08 08:52:30 EST 2019 | ameenullakhan
Hi Steve, We did the below trials today. 1. Run the board in O2 environment. result : Yellowish appearance was observed. After DI water Cleaning : Still the yellow color is there. 2. Same board run secondary side. Result : First side board yel
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 12 16:53:16 EST 2019 | stephendo
A few lifetimes ago I worked for a company that electroless plated plastic cases for computers. I can't remember if it was us or just us and one other company. The FCC said that computers had to be shielded. So plastic computer cases had to be plated
Electronics Forum | Sun Jan 25 17:40:16 EST 2009 | cuperpeter
Hello All, I have a problem with nonwetting Au finish after second cycle of reflow soldering doublesided boards. Solder nonwetted pcb pads (is wicked to component terminations) Either these pads or some of non component pads became discoloured from
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 03 16:42:50 EST 2009 | cuperpeter
Hello All, > > I have a problem with nonwetting Au > finish after second cycle of reflow soldering > doublesided boards. Solder nonwetted pcb pads (is > wicked to component terminations) Either these > pads or some of non component pads became
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 26 04:28:39 EST 2014 | chongns
Hi All member I have a problem on the stable down the color of the white solder mask PCB. first, i tough the color differences was cause by the solder mask ink, but after a close look, the color change are cause by the copper under the solder mask
Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 22 13:24:49 EDT 2014 | davef
I don't know. We never had craziness like this before lead-free. You should have the yellowish-metal analyzed to be sure. Guessing: You're seeing this color on the terminations of components, not on the bulk of the SnX solder connection. If that's
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 10 02:16:09 EST 2019 | ameenullakhan
Hi Steve, Thanks. This from the trusted supplier. HASL finished PCB. Even PCB supplier is using the water wash flux for fabrication. Its almost eliminated with N2 environment. And we had got a expert view from Dr. Lee of Indium on the issue st
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 30 02:01:15 EDT 2001 | mugen
Hey....sneaky smartie here.... my finance manager, would love to have you on the MRB team.... Anyway, most technical paste specs, do highlight the possibility, should the paste become "dry" or "sticky", we MAY recondition the paste, by "place it fro
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 22 22:22:52 EDT 2001 | davef
First an administrative point, you can edit the postings that you make on SMTnet. Look for the yellowish-greenish EDIT button at the top of your posting. Second there are over 170 postings on intermetallic* on the fine SMTnet Production Forum Archi
