Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 24 09:23:29 EDT 2000 | Dr. Ning-Cheng Lee
You are asking a very good question which has been an issue in the industry for a long long time. For operating at 225C, you will need a solder with melting point no lower than 270 or even 280C. HMP solder is very difficult to come by. At this stage,
Electronics Forum | Wed May 24 16:40:40 EDT 2006 | samir
Yikes! Sounds like a hairy situation there. I've successfully collapsed a Pb-Free BGA (using a Sn/Pb solder paste), with a peak temperature of 220 Deg. C and Time Above SAC's Eutetic point (217) of 17 seconds. Beware of overcooking your smaller ma
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 23 16:59:43 EST 1998 | Doug Romm
Dave, "Paladium Pillows and Bad Dreams"....that's a good one! I've been doing this for the last 9 years and I've heard quite a bit, but that's really cute! Seriously, in reference to the 'pillow effect' when the lead looks like it is "sitting" on to
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 11 16:42:56 EDT 2000 | Chad Notebaert
I�m thinking �Poor intermatallic� It could be a few things. Lets start at the beginning. -Is your paste a 63/37 mixture? -Have you monitored you screen printing, Verify Solder deposition, Are you getting enough paste? -You say the solder looks like i
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 27 17:47:23 EST 2000 | Dave F
Gyver: Lemme take a wack [if you�ll excuse the expression, given direction of the later discussion] at your questions. Q1. Will the baking of BGA or PCB cause more oxidation before the SMT process? A1. It certainly will not cause less oxidation,
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 28 12:29:01 EST 2005 | Bob R.
We use the exact same method Chunks outlined for evaluating just about anything we're going to roll out worldwide, whether it's a material or a machine. List your factors (print speed, solder spread, etc), assign each a weight, evaluate each paste a
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 02 12:01:40 EDT 2002 | johnw
interesting, not at all what we were told so yes lot's of contradictions comming from them, I have to say personally I've not beein impressed with there technical service of late, are they getting complacent I ask? it's strange they say it'll cause
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 27 09:09:19 EDT 2005 | Bob R.
We've all been soldering Pb free parts for a couple decades. All your surface mount capacitors have probably had a Sn finish for years. Whenever one of our parts with a SnPb finish converts for Pb free we have the manufacturing site do a small buil
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 07 09:24:47 EDT 2011 | rway
What version of sw are you running? There are some new features in 2.7.7 and earlier that may be of benefit to you. With chip caps you are testing for presense/absense. The gain/offset feature can be used to give you better contrast between the pa
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 17 19:30:27 EDT 2000 | Boca
All of the above is good stuff. To add, I have seen this several times if the assembly is wavesoldered. Heat from the wave can partially reflow the top side SM solder joints and weaken them. To test, check joint strength before wave and then after
