Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 18 12:44:24 EST 2000 | Russ
I have found that reducing the amount of metal in the joint makes a difference, we have reduced the aperture sizes to provide a minimal amount of paste. just enough to hold the part during handling. You may also want to try and slow the initial ram
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 12 08:59:46 EDT 2007 | davef
Questions are: * You say 'voids', but you describe poor barrel fill. Are you seeing both? * Sometimes designers need to reduce the heatsink effect of large ground and power places, but this usually shows on the two upper corner pins, not all corners
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 12 10:29:07 EDT 2007 | george
Are you using wave solder pallets? I use same flux and solder as you do. I've seen this problem when some walls in the wave fixture cause a "shadowing effect"...if you enlarge those openings you will increase the dwell time eliminatting voids (if the
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 02 08:52:20 EST 2001 | markkrmp
Are your voids looking like blow holes also? Is this only occurring on the solder joints of the Thru Hole components and Via's? Or does this happen on SMD pads? My experience is that we have seen this but only with some of our older PCB's which are
Electronics Forum | Tue May 02 07:19:29 EDT 2006 | billyd
Good morning all. I'm trying to find some help on my voiding issue on my lead free BGAs. I am using a Heller 8/2 zone oven, and using Qualitek solder paste. I had listened to a tech representing another solder company, who told me to make the joints
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 18 11:23:10 EDT 2007 | Learn From U
Hi All, Via X-rays, we found solder voids appear on PTH location, especially on Dimm connectors area. We think this should be related to PCB issue as we found solder unable to fill up the PTH hole during bare board testing at wave soldering machi
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 01 10:29:00 EST 2001 | davef
If the soldering process is not controlled, the results are variable, regardless of the flux type. Tell us more about your concerns, process, solder, etc
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 06 03:29:05 EST 2001 | daled
Hello I am looking for any data that confirms the long term reliabilty of no clean paste as opposed to water soluable. Does anyone have any past experiences of problems when changing over from water soluable to no clean in the SMT prcocess?? Thanks i
Electronics Forum | Tue May 02 07:56:58 EDT 2006 | billyd
Yeah, that's what I'm doing now. I have it now peaking around 235, with about 70 sec. above 220C. (220C is the reflow temp, according to manufacturer. I've always used 217C for Pb free) Wish me luck. Thanks!
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 12 09:55:55 EDT 2007 | coop
I am aware of the IPC A-610 standards on acceptability of electronics, but this place builds our products to an even higher standard. the problem is on the two leading corners of the IC's as they go into the wave.