Electronics Forum | Sun Mar 25 17:02:41 EDT 2007 | johnwnz
Folks, I may be havign a thick day, it is Monday afterall and it has been very sunny over the weekend. We have recently started buildign a fairly high volume of products that is using intrusive reflow on two PTH DIN connectors and havign soem good s
Electronics Forum | Fri May 25 13:24:38 EDT 2007 | mfgengr
I had a similar problem a long time ago. I eventually traced the problem to undercured solder resist. The flux was reacting with what was left of the uncured resist, leaving a white residue. We could not even hand scrub this off. The solution was to
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 19 19:03:31 EDT 2007 | diesel_1t
Hi folks. If the solder is on the BGA but is not soldered at all on the pads, then you can discard BGA solder issues, by the other hand; you might be experiencing wicking due to heat is being absorbed on component so the balls on BGA are hotter than
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 22 05:04:08 EDT 2007 | jkhiew
Hi, Recently we have encountered solder wicking on components termination (total of 13 pcs of components on one pcb)with Ag/Pd finishes during lead-free reflow soldering. The pcb is LF HASL surface finish and LF solder paste composition is SAC305.We
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 13 17:48:56 EDT 2008 | mariss
Our shop doesn't have a humidity controlled environment. We reflow our SMT board production at the end of the day. That means some boards can soak in 8 hours worth of humidity before reflow with the obvious negative consequences. What has come to mi
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 16 13:11:27 EST 2009 | evtimov
HI , A LOT OF SIMILAR ISSUES WERE DISCUSSED LATELY. MOST OF THE TIME THE PROBLEM IS IN THE BOARD FINISH. THE BEST OPTION IS GOLD FINISH(ENIG). MAKE A SAMPLE AND TRY IT WITH BOTH PASTES YOU HAVE. ANOTHER THING I DID BEFORE AND IT HELPED ME PARTIALLY
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 20 05:07:16 EDT 2009 | rocko
Hi All, I was puzzled because of terrible blowholes in solder joints of gold plated odd-form components. I am very confused because all other components on the boards have perfect solder joints. Here are some process details: 1) Solder paste: N
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 06 11:46:10 EDT 2009 | c111
I agree the longer soak will help provided you are not applying to much heat/time to the board now. -are the pads that lift connected to anything? This has happened to me in the past where un-connected pads would come of far easier than those connec
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 15 17:16:00 EDT 2009 | rmitchell
Hi, I am trying to reduce some 0402 cap tombstones. The main cause is the pad spacing is a little too far apart and the parts are as tall as they are wide .5mm I am stuck with the pad spacing for a while. All other parts are soldering well, even 0
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 26 09:33:24 EST 2010 | smt_guy
Hi, I have a copper plate that we received from supplier with oils and some sort of stains. We tried most of the general type of degreasers by soaking but didn't work until we tried a Floor Stripper from Ace and it does make the copper clean and shi
