Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 10 13:39:56 EDT 1998 | Justin Medernach
| Our company wants to buy a rework station for BGA's. I would like to know what is a good BGA rework station. IR or hot air? Do we need a rework station with optical placement or can BGa's be placed manually during rework. We have seen a demo of an
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 03 13:50:32 EDT 1998 | Chrys
| Can anyone tell me if there is a reference for smt component height specs on the bottom side of a board, which will also go through wave soldering. A current design I am reviewing has tant caps(7343) and a crystal on the back side. Should I only b
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 03 09:04:19 EDT 1998 | Steve Gregory
Hi Anthony! Earl's right, things can get rather involved when you start discussing ALL the things that affect whether or not a board is going to warp. The way I look at the issue is try to separate the warp issue into two catagories; 1. The board bei
Electronics Forum | Wed May 27 14:20:43 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| We recently made the switch to no-clean and the wurface mount is turning out beautifully. However, the wave solder process continues to put up a fight; we are getting a white residue on the surface of the PCB. The residue is not localized to
Electronics Forum | Fri May 29 17:07:00 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| | We recently made the switch to no-clean and the wurface mount is turning out beautifully. However, the wave solder process continues to put up a fight; we are getting a white residue on the surface of the PCB. The residue is not localized
Electronics Forum | Tue May 26 14:42:55 EDT 1998 | Justin Medernach
| We currently bake plastic SMT parts in accordance with the IPC guidelines for moisture sensitive parts. Because we have double-sided boards that are subjected to either an aqueous or semi-aqueous cleaning process, we do a 24 hour bake at 125 deg.
Electronics Forum | Tue May 19 12:54:55 EDT 1998 | Richard Jackson
| We had a similar problem. But whenever the solder came from the screen printer the solder would wet to the gold fingers, with the help of residual flux. But the problem is balls, that I assume are not wetted to the gold fingers but instead are jus
Electronics Forum | Fri May 15 21:09:14 EDT 1998 | Steve Gregory
| | If you have a chance check out the MSD artical (Page 69) in April Electronic Packaging & Production. It is one of the worst articals with unsubstantiated conclusions I have ever seen. Notice Figure 3 on page 72, Caption indicates two simular co
Electronics Forum | Fri May 15 21:59:42 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| Hi, | There has been a lot of disputes in our company | about changing present HASL to another Finishing | which can provide more flatter pad surface in fine | pitch applications. ( perhaps Ni/Au, OSP ) | The target is to reduce solder defects, t
Electronics Forum | Wed May 06 09:16:51 EDT 1998 | justin medernach
| I hear that there is a problem with using ceramic parts that are sizeable. Apparently, there is a mismatch in the Temperature Coefficient of Expansion between the FR4 and ceramic materials which causes the soldered erminations to weaken and eventua
