Electronics Forum | Sat May 01 04:49:21 EDT 1999 | Jeff Sanchez
| Mornin! | | We just had vendor in here pitching a "low-temperature rework system" which was intriguing, but too expensive. He did get me to thinking though, beyond heating ceramic caps before hand-soldering them, it seems like it would be ad
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 21 14:38:38 EDT 1999 | Justin Medernach
| Does anyone have any experience with soldering 50mil pitch BGA's that have a via in the pad, the size is .012 The via will be masked off on the bottom side of the board. Need to know what precautions or problems if any I might encounter. The proces
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 12 20:19:46 EST 1999 | Dean
| AVX and a few other companies make these chip transient voltage suppressors (TVS) parts that are a real *PAIN* to use. According to AVX: | "Due to the semiconducting nature of the doped Zinc Oxide (ZnO) ceramic material, SMT TransGuards ar
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 24 16:47:30 EST 1999 | Earl Moon
| Fab Gurus, (Earl) | What are the disadvantages of using paper phrenwhatsit as a substrate. I want to justify changing a substrate from paper to chem3 or FR4 and I need some info regarding long term failure issues, etc. | | Thanks, | Justin | Jus
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 18 22:49:49 EST 1999 | Chris G.
| We are using .040" diameter fiducials (global and local) on our boards. They are solder covered and HASL. I get batches of boards where the p&p vision system has trouble reading the fiducial. The fiducial looks dark on the screen. The board ven
Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 23 13:29:40 EST 1999 | Earl Moon
| Hi Everyone, | We plan to build, for reliability/experimental/research purpose some CSPs (namely Tessera microBGA 46-I/O 0/75mm pitch and TI 64 I/O 0/8 mm pitch). the various factors that we plan to evaluate are the reliability and assembly concern
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 15 11:40:37 EST 1999 | Bob Willis
| | I am experiencing a problem with a surface mount coax connector that over time pulls loose from the PWB. The connector has 4 small gold plated leads and we are soldering it to a flash gold board. A cable plugs into the connector and puts some c
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 30 09:47:52 EST 1998 | Paul M
Hi All, I work with CNC Routers . I use full perimeter routing of double sided populated panels, in a high volume/ mix application environment. We chose stand alone routing machines for our facility . I'm interested in your input for better ideas
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 01 07:24:44 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| Hi folks , | Lately we are seeing a lot of rawcards with black spots on the pads - most of them have Au finish(immersion gold) . We did a lot of inspecton after wave solder and found that only (fine pitch) QFP are affected the most. Our inspection
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 22 12:25:31 EDT 1998 | Chrys
| | Hi Jacqueline! | | Do these joints that you're having problems with happen to be on fine pitch solder joints? Are the fillets staying attached to the foot and separating from the pads cleanly? | | If that is true, are there many vias concen