Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 07 09:23:20 EDT 2004 | davef
In addition to your concerns about leaching, why aren't you concerned about: * Tin whiskers * Total absence of in use reliability information about no-lead, especially given that creep is significantly different between SnPb and no-leads. While they
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 14 06:00:01 EDT 2005 | bryan
The shelf life of immersion silver is 6 to 12 months in good storage conditions. The finish is usually coated with a protective layer that inhibits oxidation (like with copper OSP). Care must be taken when handling the boards as the protective la
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 24 19:19:11 EST 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi Don't really know what "your grainy" means. It could be good, marginal, or bad. You need to get some photos or micrographs of what is normal and off-normal. Compared to Sn/Pb 63/37 on mostly Sn it should look visually different. Every time you c
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 11 22:14:59 EDT 2017 | dawson
Hi Adonys, What's ICP 1-3? Do you mean IPC? 1. Excess Plating- no excess, but filled with something which generated in the process of copper plating. 2. Dark Vias - it's oxidized. and the solder mask printing is not aligned. The board is failed. M
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 13 16:35:25 EDT 2004 | Richard
Sounds like your Si plalladium finish has oxide on it from the firing or sitting around too long. I used to assemble LTCC and have had plenty of dealings with this matter. The best and easiest is to get an active type flux and solder paste. AIM makes
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 20 17:16:02 EDT 2006 | GS
Silver tarnish on lead could compromise the soldering, mainly in case of No Clean process. Make sure components are correctly packaged and stored. Check the vintage ( Manufacturing Data Code) and in order to avoid them to get old on shelf make sure F
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 14 10:14:04 EST 2000 | PeteB
Jacqueline, Asuming you mean immersion silver: Advantages - Very flat finish compared to HASL, more easily solderable than bare copper with OSP and more process tolerant than this in our experience, reasonable shelf life, cheaper than immersion gol
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 26 10:27:37 EDT 2006 | slaine
weve hand soldered a few components that were tarnished with no problems, also the tarnish is electrically conductive if it helps.
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 30 12:49:59 EDT 2005 | Ted
Slaine, We use a Pd/Ag thickfilm paste. Because of the leaching we had to start using solder pastes that have silver in it. For RoHS, we are using a solder paste with an alloy of Sn95/Ag05. We also have to double print the thickfilm pastes. I h
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 30 09:24:08 EDT 2005 | Slaine
we manufacture a range of ceramic parts that have silver termination,there is already a small leaching problem (absorption of the termination by the solder in liquid form)with Sn62 that we live with, having to implement unleaded solder they are norma
