Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 29 03:57:16 EST 2005 | sparrow
Hello Chris, To be honest, it's hard to believe you could not bond to ENIG at all. Yes, the gold layer is thin and hard, but it just narrows the process window and does not make the bonding impossible. I say this, because we have been using TS gold w
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 26 17:59:07 EST 2006 | GS
How is RH% inside your Dry Cabinet ? What is the most critical MDL of your MSDs soldered on your board ? Best instructions about Handling of MSD you can get from Standard J-STD-033B/C. The defects you encountered at test it could be moisture absor
Electronics Forum | Sat Apr 15 09:07:22 EDT 2006 | samir
Amol, We pulled off this "hybrid profile" with a leaded solder paste. We recently got our tensile test report results, and our Pb-Free BGA / Pb Paste sample broke off during tensile tests at the pad/substrate interface, and not the joint. This ind
Electronics Forum | Thu May 01 15:11:37 EDT 2008 | dphilbrick
CK So as I see it batch B represents a leaded process with leaded components and D is a leaded process with lead free components. Batch Components Paste B SnPb Sn62 D Lead-free Sn62 If so it is BETTER to run a lead free BGA with Sn
Electronics Forum | Fri May 09 12:08:19 EDT 2008 | sliebl
Last year I had my doctor do a lead test during one of my regular blood tests. My exposure at work is similar to most of you, I'm sure. I've been doing this for 13 years now. We do predominantly leaded solder processing through SMT and wave. I wash m
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 12 02:29:13 EST 2009 | sachu_70
Hi Milan, One cause for such BGA failures could either be a laminate warp (bow or twist) formed during your Reflow or Wave soldering process, or perhaps a warp seen on the BGA component package itself prior to processing on SMT line. IPC guidelines f
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 12 11:57:59 EST 2009 | jmiller
i have searched the forum for hours. read all the threads that deals with cleanliness and ionic testing. (http://www.smtnet.com/forums/Index.cfm?CFApp=1&Message_ID=40295) (http://www.smtnet.com/forums/Index.cfm?CFApp=1&Message_ID=22603) (http://www.
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 20 08:23:23 EDT 2009 | ratsalad
One diagnostic tool that I have found useful in the past is the "hot plate test". Place suspect components and/or PCB's on a hot plate and turn it on High. Then observe. Granted the conditions on the hot plate are not the same as in a reflow oven,
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 16 14:50:49 EST 2010 | rway
What Derek means is, you will have to train new templates from time to time, something you have to do with every AOI. Because there is no established method for marking parts, these markings can change. For instance, the text on chip resistors coul
Electronics Forum | Wed May 23 08:39:37 EDT 2012 | tony_d
Thomas, We evaluated several AOI machines and narrowed the field to two, YESTech and MIRTEC. We had an opportunity to work with both of these machines on our production floor. In our experience, the MIRTEC machine simply outperformed the competitive