Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 25 11:38:22 EDT 2008 | vortex337
Our company has run into an issue with de-wetting of lead free components. Our profile is dead on with paste manufacturers specs. We have had this issue with both gold immersed, and hot air leveled boards. We have tried three different solder paste m
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 30 03:49:25 EDT 1999 | Charles Stringer
| | | | We use Immersion Gold (AuNi) for our 20 mil pitch and BGA boards. | | | | Lately, we have been having solderability problems with boards with this surface from some of our suppliers. | | | | | | | | We are considering trying boards with Whit
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 16 01:40:17 EDT 2003 | praveen
Hi , We are using water wash solder paste to solder the SMT LED's manufactured by Chicago Miniature lamp (CMD93-21 & 22)and Kingbright. Achieving the solder fillet , wetting has no issue but we observe high fallout at the functional testing. If we do
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 26 13:13:07 EST 2009 | rgduval
We've had this same problem with the solder wicking to the component terminations. However, in our case, we did not see the pads turning a silver-white color...rather, they exhibited a tarnishing/darkening of the gold. We determined that we had som
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 15 10:05:50 EDT 2010 | dwonch
Hi all, Long story ahead.... We are having issues with board vendors on some of our higher layer count (thick) boards. Specifically under BGAs with high aspect ratio vias (14:1). We are using ENIG finish and a lead free process. Basically we get t
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 18 18:39:15 EDT 2001 | davef
Responding to your questions ... RELIABILITY OF 1% SILVER SOLDER PASTE: It�s as good as the next solder paste, all other things the same. Look at your back articles by Jennie Hang in SMT magazine. I want to say she wrote an article on the topic i
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 30 16:28:51 EDT 2010 | 18424
Hello All, looking for some help from you guru's. I have several Enig boards with solderability problems. Components ranging from 0402's to ssop's. Using AIM W/S leaded solder paste, profile is beautiful and has been for years running the same produc
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 30 06:47:18 EDT 2010 | arjan
We having issues installing the Linear Tech LTM8023. We have different soldering results in our PBfree testruns. The voiding and solderball rate is not stable (random positions and sizes). The pcb's (gold finish)are prebaked, the LGA's are stored in
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 30 11:39:46 EDT 2009 | rgduval
Is this a sample board that you ran without components? If so, I'd get it back to your board house, and ask them to explain to you what's happening. We never did get to a satisfactory root cause on our issue (at least, satisfactory to me). It seem
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 07 17:25:58 EST 2017 | davef
Help me understand your issue better ... Are you looking to: * Improve your products that are used for thermal cycling testing of products of other companies? * Change your production materials so that you pass thermal cycling testing of your produ
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