Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 04 14:09:52 EST 2002 | Vince Whipple
By the way, what type of preheaters do you have? IR? Convection? If you have IR, there may be a way to cheat. Vince W
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 02 18:01:12 EST 2002 | GSW
Hi, Try to check if there is water absorbed in the flux or the humidity around the wave area. possibly plating on barrels that might be damaged?
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 17 08:38:30 EST 2002 | Randy Villeneuve
Jim, In most cases if you can eliminate a process you will save money. With that in mind, an all surface mount or all through hole design is prefered. There are alternatives to that rule, like hybrid designs that can be pin and paste soldered. It al
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 03 11:59:01 EST 2002 | slthomas
We haven't run a profile yet....probably because we're a-feared to. We can't do topside preheating here to any degree because we use an aluminum plate for aligning hundreds of top side through-hole components (pots, switches, buttons, LEDs) that te
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 10 14:10:38 EST 2002 | Randy Villeneuve
Steve, I wave solder most if not all our boards with selective wave pallets. I did not catch if the solder balls were on top of the board or on the bottom but that will make a difference on what to do to get rid of them. Pallets are good and bad. On
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 16 17:35:43 EST 2002 | davef
Jim Consider issuing a purchase order to your assembler for the purchase of selective wave soldering pallets required to solder your board. That way, you: * Own the pallets. * Can take the pallets with you should you decide that another assembler
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 16 19:05:57 EST 2002 | davidduke
Steve , I agree with all the responses you have received. Randy Villeneuve is absolutly correct in all of his assesments and I would consider him an expert with the process , Gris is correct about adding a "heat sink" to the process complicating pr
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 17 13:42:04 EST 2002 | robf
There are a few emerging technologies that have been growing in popularity for the past few years. Pin through paste, press fit connectors and selective soldering machines seem to be displacing custom fixtures. Most of the mixed technology boards o
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 16 16:35:55 EST 2002 | Jim Ferris
Randy, Steve & all, Can you guys point me in the right direction when it come to using selective wave soldering...I am trying to get in-depth information on the Pro's & Con's of having our supplier use this process for our PWA's. (I can see there ar
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 05 11:04:27 EST 2002 | slthomas
They're IR, bottom side only. Frankly wave solder is not my forte (there are those that would claim nothing is), but I've personally been tasked with developing a process to do reliable, high volume bottom side SMT, so I'm drawing a lot from the tec
