Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 16 13:18:46 EDT 2004 | davef
You bet our reponse changes. Q2R: Hard gold thickness is 4 to 10 u" for Au and 300 to 400 u" for nickel A2R: This is a hard gold spec?? It looks like a ENIG spec. Although, the Ni is quite heavy, 150 uin is sufficient for most applications. The gol
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 25 10:32:03 EDT 2005 | davef
IPC-2221A, Generic Standard on Printed Board Design, the base document that covers all generic requirements for printed board design, regardless of materials. From there, the designer can choose the appropriate sectional standard for a specific techn
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 10 20:59:14 EDT 2006 | davef
Dave Try: * IPC-2221 - Generic Standard On Printed Board Design * IPC-2222 - Sectional Design Standard For Printed Board For Organic Printed Boards Our old [euphemistically] friend Earl Moon has written extensively on DFM. Look at his site: http://
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 21 04:14:19 EST 2009 | sachu_70
Hi Adam, I would suggest you refer IPC-2221 guidelines which define plating thickness as: Nickel 2.5-5.0 um , Gold 0.08-0.23 um. Although ENIG is a standard process, there is an associated risk towards Gold embrittlement, Porous Gold, or Black pad de
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 09 16:55:28 EST 2009 | cuperpeter
Hi Sachin, thanks for your feedback. According to our supplier, surface plating is electrolytic gold over Nickel(not ENIG), but I think that is a still improper thickness for Au. (according to 3rd Working Draft from September 2008 of IPC 2221B "0.4
Electronics Forum | Thu May 09 17:24:11 EDT 2002 | davef
First, SM-782 elates to surface mount pads. So, expecting to find PTH design rules there is a bit of a stretch. Search the fine SMTnet Archives for similar threads. For instance here�s one from last week: http://www.smtnet.com//forums/index.cfm?fu
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 09 07:53:16 EDT 2012 | davef
Allowable bow & twist: Together, both IPC-A-600G and IPC-6012B represent the core IPC documents for describing the acceptable and nonconforming conditions that are either externally or internally visible on finished printed boards. IPC-A-600G relies
Electronics Forum | Wed May 30 17:49:49 EDT 2001 | davef
You are correct. IPC wants you to pay for that standard, regardless if you get a hard copy or download it. Generally, it�s pretty boring stuff for production types. [Although, you will recognize some of the goofy things your designers have done to
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 01 17:13:15 EST 2000 | Dave F
Sorin: Formulas for calculating heat dissipation of traces don�t seem to provide practical results. But there are some wonderful tables and graphs that will meet you needs. You may need to do some finagling when calculating vias and through holes,
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 25 18:45:19 EST 2000 | Ashok Dhawan
I am getting black spots / stuff while I run gold finish PCB through reflow soldering process using NC solder paste.The affected spots have intermetalic as black in color. Does not solder very well. I did look at the archieve but could not find info