Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 23 14:45:00 EDT 2002 | Tom G
I haven't tried anything like that but had some experience with .8 mm pitch SSOPs. Immersion depth in wave was very critical- had to control Lambda pump speeds within 20 RPM and even then it would change as solder level dropped. Need thieving pads o
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 24 11:48:37 EDT 2005 | Anthony
Hello, we are currently designing our first PCB with surface mount components on both sides of the board. I understand about solder thieves in order to help short circuits. Are there any good white papers or books which identify the best practices w
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 19 09:02:10 EDT 2005 | clampron
Good Morning Everyone, We have a customer that produces RF based assemblies. We are building several board types for them, all of which have an "RF" area of the PCB. This RF area does not have any mask to define pads. There are also several issues w
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 14 11:56:47 EDT 2006 | russ
I think you have your pitch wrong but anyway, I have never had success with wave soldering anything less than 50 mil pitch. On a QFP I have had good luck on three sides of 25 mil but never all four sides and without defects. Mask 'em off and hand s
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 01 08:09:08 EST 2006 | CK the Flip
Square-leaded pin headers will typically bridge at the trailing edge (last couple of leads), since during peel-back, the solder at the trailing edge has "nowhere to go". If you have control over designs, ask your designers if they can put solder thi
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 10 18:32:20 EST 2008 | stevek
Our layout guy recently started making land patterns with the corner lands oversized. These are for leadless and various flatpack parts. He claims this is to improve manufacturing. I had seen a few boards with this just as I got out of the CM worl
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 13 12:32:43 EDT 2009 | davef
2.6.3 Test Pad Location Tolerances, third bullet. Why does Entek require different test point spacing than other surface finishes? Page 55, top image is off the page, partially. 2.3.6 Depanelization of Arrays, 10th bullet [Breakaway Scoring] refers
Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 30 16:42:32 EST 2016 | davef
Many board fabs help their customer understand the importance of copper balance. Copper balance * http://www.multi-circuit-boards.eu/en/pcb-design-aid/copper-balance.html * http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/85633/what-is-copper-thiev
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 18 20:09:52 EDT 1999 | Dean
| Has there anyone bold enough to try this in their shops? My cubemate just got through telling me that at his last shop, they had bare copper boards (no HASL, no OSP, no nothing), with minimal solderability problems. | yes, 8 years ago I developed
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 23 11:09:12 EST 1999 | Steve Gregory
Hi Dave! Dat' be da same board we ran at NEPCON East in 97'! Ray Rua was running the TAC line then (his company usually runs the TAC line at almost all NEPCON shows). A couple of things I wanted to point out on that GIF image that might b
