Electronics Forum | Wed May 19 17:43:25 EDT 2010 | pforister
Hello, I'm having problems with voiding on an assembly that has a GPS hybrid with balls much like a BGA. This is a RoHS assembly using no-clean solder (Kester EM907). The voids are at or above 25%. I use an 8 zone oven where I peak in zone 7 and
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 29 08:26:03 EDT 2010 | babe7362000
We are Currently running a Board and it seems that the SOT-223's on the bottom side have flux and water trapped under the part. Nothing has changed in our process and this is the only board that it is happening on. We are using Kester R562 water wa
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 13 19:23:05 EST 2011 | bandjwet
We have a customer whom we have built boards for. They want a "cleaner no clean look". The process uses a no clean Kester 256 SN63 solder paste. After reflow the "residue" noted by the client is too much. We have tried a few things. We are a small
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 29 16:28:06 EDT 2011 | rway
Let's be more specific. Why do you need to clean the boards? I assume it is for testing purposes, probe contact concerns and the like. This is the only economical reason I can think of to clean no-clean flux residue from your assemblies. Before y
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 10 13:26:40 EST 2012 | dyoungquist
We are using our selective solder machine to solder a backplane with sixteen (16) 4x48 pin 0.080" connectors. Our first pass yield is about 85% meaning that 85% of the connectors come out with no bridges. Not quite as fine pitch as your connector a
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 21 09:09:50 EDT 2013 | wcheew
I am having solder barrel fill issues on THM component, we follow, we follow IPC 610 E requirement. The barrel fill issues happen on signal & ground pin at connector & E-cap. I found out that most of the insufficient solder happen on the connector ag
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 10 04:36:41 EDT 2015 | vb7007
Hi I have been struggling with boards for high quality picky customer. I am getting flux waves (like splashed - too hard to clean) after wave, where as we are still using Kester 979 (No clean flux, but as we are getting visible marks which looks si
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 10 04:37:32 EDT 2015 | vb7007
Hi I have been struggling with boards for high quality picky customer. I am getting flux waves (like splashed - too hard to clean) after wave, where as we are still using Kester 979 (No clean flux, but as we are getting visible marks which looks si
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 10 04:40:01 EDT 2015 | vb7007
Hi I have been struggling with boards for high quality picky customer. I am getting flux waves (like splashed - too hard to clean) after wave, where as we are still using Kester 979 (No clean flux, but as we are getting visible marks which looks si
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 06 12:15:19 EST 2015 | derrikf
Also, for anyone who's taken an interest in this thread: We just received samples of Henkel/Loctite's room temperature stable(yes, you read that right), halide-free, lead-free pastes, both the GC 10 and the GC 3W (which is a water soluble/wash paste
