Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 30 14:59:07 EST 2001 | MikeF
I thought Contact Length refered to the travel distance the board stays in contact with the solder. I measured it using a tempered glass plate that also showed me if I had an even footprint of contact with the wave. By this definition, conveyor spe
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 22 12:26:33 EST 2001 | traviss
I used a Blue M batch oven quite a bit to cure in works great. All you have to do is get the board up to cure temperature, 150C normally and your all set. It will probably be in there longer than the time required but at that low temperature it shoul
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 01 09:14:06 EST 2001 | Dale Dolan
Dek 265 Get yourself Formflex tooling for quick changeover time. The principle being tooling pins are raised by a combination of pneumatic's and hydraulics to meet the underside of the pcb which rises to print height. No longer will u have to judge
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 24 17:08:58 EDT 2000 | Dr. Ning-Cheng Lee
Depending on the stress condition experienced by the solder joints. For joints under a greater stress, the time to reach equilibrium can be shorter. Of course, the change is also more significant in phase structure. For low stress conditions, it may
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 23 15:19:11 EDT 2000 | Dr. Ning-Cheng Lee
From solder material point of view, a solder paste with slow coalescence rate, or slow wetting rate, will be most desirable. Processwise, allowing the paste to stay at soaking zone for longer time will dry out the volatiles, and reduce the chance of
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 08 10:52:37 EDT 2000 | rolandos1
Hello, My name is Rolando and I want to know more about gold fingers protectors. Our current problem is on SMT line which is used with one board with gold pads and while normal production we get solder paste contaminations on these pads, recently o
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 18 08:25:59 EDT 2001 | Carl Evans
The install of the new closed loop system is totally dependant on which m/c and levell of software you have. the maximum time it should take for a older m/c that has to have new wiring run in the m/c should take no longer than five days including tra
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 16 22:40:02 EDT 2001 | davef
Speaking of people we'd like to pimp slap, why did the not-so-quality guy decide to ship defective units, anywho? This sorta says we can't blame the customer any longer. So, it's either blame the fabricator or umm er, sorry to say this ... YOU DL,
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 17 06:11:33 EST 1999 | Christopher Lampron
Henry, TNT makes some good points. I have also found that the use of a 2% silver solder paste (provided that it's allowable) can help reduce the occurance. You may want to run a thermal profile on the PCB is question. Is the board thermaly equalized
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 03 18:01:39 EST 1999 | Dave F
Chris, Two points of perspective are: 1 Solderability: The shelf life of components has elapsed when they are no longer solderable. There's tons of variables that affect this, but keys are: * Intermetalics grow as a function of temperature. * Th
