Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 20 09:47:46 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| Will somebody please explain HASL (here). Thanks. Tryin: HASL: Hot Air Solder Leveled. A board fabrication process that applies an oxidation preventing solder coating to copper pads on the board. Dave F
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 27 07:18:44 EDT 2004 | Nippy
How does the HASL finish and stencil match ? I have seen ocasions on fine pitch devices where the HASL can protrude into the stencil aperture either pulling paste down on the snap off or completely blocking the aperture and getting no paste.
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 28 02:43:00 EST 2007 | philip_yam
Hi all, For leadfree HASL finish, is there any specification or guidelines for contamination level, esp Cu% to refer? How can we ensure the HASL finish composition is reliable for assembly? Thanks..
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 12 08:50:08 EST 2008 | greene08
I am trying to find a standard for HASL - especially for small pitch devices. Are there better options than HASL for boards with a large amount of small pitch IC's??
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 03 16:34:10 EST 2005 | davef
The main advantage if ENIG over HASL is that ENIG is flat and HASL generally is not. The main disadvanages to ENIG over HASL are: * Cost of ENIG is 1.5 - 2X higher than HASL * Selflife is less than HASL * You solder to nickel, rather than copper * E
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 17 03:03:29 EDT 2010 | grahamcooper22
Hi Gani, looking at the HASL icture and the poor wetting of the solder over the pads I would imagine that the HASL coating is very thin on the pads and in actual fact isn't 'solder' but is tin /copper intemetallic and this has poor solderability. It
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 02 09:31:26 EDT 2000 | C.K.
Okay, there's a debate here at my company. We build a card here that, often times, we get batches where there is excess HASL in the VIA hole barrels. Here is the problem that this causes: During the "1st reflow", the excess HASL bleeds out of the
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 04 10:40:51 EDT 2001 | nifhail
I have thousands of old datecode PCBs which has an Entek and HASL finished. Entek PCBs are about 6 � 1.5 years old and HASL boards are at 1 - 2 years old. To make it worse, some of them came in the loose form, no vacuum seal� nothin�. As for the HA
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 10 17:18:47 EDT 1998 | Igmar Grewar
| Okay, here's a stupid question. What exactly is HASL and OSP? We are going to delve into this technology where I work and I want to utilize the wealth of knowledge here to make life easier. Specifically, what are the differences, the advantages, di
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 03 16:59:13 EDT 2008 | glennster
At a former employer we required HASL thicknes to be a minimum of 0.75 micron (30 microinches), as measured at the thinnest point on any given pad. This would generally assure a minimum 1 year solderability shelf life. Usually when we saw a soldera
