Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 18 22:49:49 EST 1999 | Chris G.
| We are using .040" diameter fiducials (global and local) on our boards. They are solder covered and HASL. I get batches of boards where the p&p vision system has trouble reading the fiducial. The fiducial looks dark on the screen. The board ven
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 22 10:25:11 EDT 1998 | Ben Salisbury
| We are using PCBs of CEM3 Material with bare copper fiducials. The whole | board is of bare copper with a lacquer coating (Coats brother S2974). | The fiducials are of 1 mm diameter bare copper. we use Panasert MV2F as | well as Fuji CP4-3. In bo
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 26 19:48:29 EDT 2001 | davef
Information a SIR test vehicle can be found in IPC-9201, SIR Handbook [http://www.ipc.org]. Common test boards are: * IPC-B-24 (copper and HASL, FR-4 and polyimide) * IPC-B-36 (bare copper and HASL, FR-4 and polyimide) * IPC Phoenix board (bare copp
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 19 19:25:40 EDT 1999 | Jeff Sanchez
Carol, I think the guys are right about you stand off problem but I want to address the wrinkleing of your masking. Although I think the temps you are subjecting the board to are very high and more than likely creating problems of their own. I th
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 28 17:23:03 EST 2006 | flipit
Flash gold usually refers to electrolytic gold with a short plating time. In other words gold plating that requires current to plate. If you have bare copper under your soldermask, the gold is probably ENIG. The only other way to have bare copper
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 01 10:48:21 EDT 2000 | Jeremy
I am having a problem with the green solder mask flaking off exposing bare copper. The mask was defective from the board manufacturer. My problem is the boards are already assembled and we are just finding the problem. Is there a standard that cover
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 14 11:44:23 EDT 2004 | Dreamsniper
I have boards with bad HASL application. First they're not even. Second some pad edges have no HASL and still remains bare copper. What's the maximum and minimum HASL thickness required for a good solderability. My boards are about 6 weeks old, I kno
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 05 15:13:46 EDT 2007 | joeherz
We've seen non-functional QFNs cured by touching up the toe fillets. Especially with parts that are not plated on the edge/face where you get minimal/no wetting due to oxidation of bare copper. I'm not suggesting that you touch everything up but th
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 21 18:28:42 EST 2008 | Frank
In the good old days, I've made raw boards at home. Layout the design and then transfer it to a bare copper clad board. Etching it out is the fun part. I grabbed our 9x13 pyrex baking dish from the kitchen. Using metal etching dish doesn't make
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 03 13:53:41 EST 2009 | allwave
The spec for all PCB suppliers is "solder mask over bare copper using LPI on external layers (green)". The flux we use is No clean 270WR flux (AIM). As far as process parameters, like I mentioned before, same parameters for several suppliers, only on
