Electronics Forum | Thu May 20 14:38:09 EDT 2010 | davef
Unfilled vias consistently produce higher quantities and larger voids than filled vias, in some cases 5 times as much. [Effect of Filling Via-in-Pad on Voiding Rates in PWB Assembly for BGA Components; C Shea, R Raut, L Piccione; ALPHA -A Cookson Ele
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 27 08:44:08 EDT 2007 | Brett
For those of you who use via holes as test points, and the via holes must be filled at the wave, is it necessary to have a "dome" on every single test point, or is it sufficient to have the via "filled" with solder? The ICT preson here insists that
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 03 07:28:27 EST 2006 | davef
Via filling methods are: * Tenting * Plugging * Capping * Flooding Tented Via. A via covered with dry film soldermask; the via is not filled. When tenting from both sides there may be issues with trapped air that expands during mass soldering. Plug
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 18 09:04:29 EST 2002 | russ
Dave, You stated that an unfilled via is of greater strength than a filled or partially filled via. I posted to another thread recently and I stated that a filled via was of greater strength than an unfilled. I was tought (incorrectly?) that a fill
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 04 12:22:12 EDT 1998 | John Allan
| | | Hello: | | | BACKGROUD: SMT components soldered on the top-side of boards that also require wave soldering have the potential to reflow during wave soldering. Reflowing these components during wave soldering is not good. It can cause cold jo
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 08 14:41:17 EDT 2002 | davef
See what happens when you take a couple of days off? Your theory sounds reasonable, but someone else could make an equally valid case that you are blasting your solder plug across the room with the force of the expansion of entapped air between th
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 22 20:33:24 EST 2005 | davef
Q1. What are you guys doing for filled/tented/plugged vias on the BGA site? A2. 2221A, 4.5.1 tells you the vias have to be tented on both sides. Q2. What type of issues can this cause if using no filled/tented/plugged vias on the BGA site? A2. BGA
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 12 22:22:01 EDT 2004 | davef
Large voids are common in via in pad [seach the fine SMTnet Archives for earlier laments], especially in blind via. Observations on your via out gassing theory: * If the copper plating on your via is GT 1 thou, there will be no outgassing from the
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 15 13:27:45 EDT 2007 | Pete
We had a customer do a similar thing. We notified our customer and educated them on what was happening. We were instructed to try one and report on the results, as the vias were supposed to be filled (and weren't). We pasted and reflowed and as su
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 04 21:41:36 EST 2005 | mika
Have some mercy with my english. Russ is correct. We do simular things. The differents we do and this must be applied to who it concerns: We do ourself/or we often have requirements to the customer to layout the fid's to 1.5mm diameter. We have some