Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 01 13:48:29 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| Dear fellow process engineers, | | Some solder joints "trough hole component" have cracked. I suspect that in the market some technician tryed to straighten some components (LED) and has applied enough force to actually brake the joint. The joints
Electronics Forum | Tue May 13 06:57:10 EDT 2003 | davef
Your vendor site is totally correct. 2Ag is an excellent solder, but it does nothing to prevent tin and gold from reacting chemically. An earlier poster is correct gold goes into solution in liquid solder very fast, less than a second. Gold and ti
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 09 20:32:10 EDT 2003 | davef
The maximum ratio of gold weight to solder alloy weight can be calculated, to help prevent a problem from excessive gold-tin intermetallic compound (i.e., AuSn4). For the equation and its derivation, please refer to "The Use of Capillary Action Measu
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 27 09:09:36 EST 2006 | davef
Silver on your copper or brass part is a solderability protection. The silver diffuses into the solder and you solder to the base metal, either the copper or brass in your case. Soldering to copper is well known. The issues are soldering to brass
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 16 11:58:07 EDT 2007 | cingsman
I believe SAC305 will result in a lesser amount of Ag3Sn inter-metallic compounds being formed along the joint boundary and in the sphere. Studies have been shown to point out a significant difference between the number and size of Ag3Sn plates in SA
Electronics Forum | Fri May 03 18:55:41 EDT 2002 | davef
Interesting situation. Everything [ie, intermetallic compounds, solderability, etc] is speculative without knowing more about the materials of: * Leads. * Solderability protection. ... because suppliers use a fairly wide of materials. Your suppl
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 10 22:41:20 EST 2000 | Dave F
Russ: Now that�s a good story. Nuff said on the Vegas trip, that explains everything. Especially when you say "it must have something to do with ..." I love WS609. It�s been berry, berry good to me. Intermetalic Layer (IL). A compound formed a
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 15 16:30:57 EDT 2008 | boardhouse
Hi Aj, Recommended Immersion gold thickness would be 3-5 Micro inches over 140 -200 micro inches of Nickel. Thicker Immersion gold than 5 micro inches can cause solder joint embrittlement. Gold readily dissolves in molten solder and will be present
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 23 11:27:00 EDT 1999 | Dave F
0.6 �m (25 micro inches) and self-limit around 5 mils depending on the material being plated and the process. Similarly with white tin, laminates with cleaned copper are immersed in a series of tin baths without an external source of electric curren
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 26 13:10:48 EDT 2000 | ptvianc
Yes, one should always be concerned about "field failures" because they represent the point at which the product has exceeded its design lifetime with respect to its service conditions. Hybrid microciruit technolgy (HMC) has been around for a long t
