Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 29 13:43:42 EST 2006 | Wave Master Larry
LISTEN thats the problem with the engineers.The engineers at my place of employment always crack that "engineering humor" too and i hate it.Hell Edison had no formal education. I liken myself to Thomas Edison no formal education but lots of practica
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 20 11:28:45 EDT 2001 | Steve
Fluxes that have been properly heat activated are insulative (non-reactive) during operation in the field and during environmental testing. If you are also performing a cleaning operation, the possibility of growing dendrites is so remote that it can
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 05 06:29:18 EDT 1999 | Graham Naisbitt
| | | We're getting field failures in a high impedance portion of the circuit. Think the unpopulated pc card has contaminates because we were able to grow dendrites by applying a 9 volt battery across the suspected pad, placed a drop of de-ionized w
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 22 10:57:25 EST 2004 | davef
On the dendritic growth over the top of the capacitor: We agree that your capacitor supplier probably did not do a very good job of cleaning process residues from their device. On the metallic fragments under the capacitor: This sounds like solder
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 14 09:53:03 EST 2004 | paul_fisher
Yep fully functional and failed during the test. 25 to 55C in 3 hour hold for 9 hours then 55C to 25C in 3 hours hold for 9 hours then repeat. Humidity at 95 percent! Boards only part conformally coated. Growth with and without the coating. seems to
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 14 10:26:48 EST 2004 | patrickbruneel
Yep that is a tough environment and no-clean will not work. The only two solutions you have is cleaning with a better cleanable paste (No-clean doesn't clean very well) Or you can go to no-residue and skip the cleaning. If you want to further discu
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 04 11:47:42 EST 2009 | patrickbruneel
I have to correct something from my previous post (before someone else corrects me). You can grow dendrites from any conductive surface (Cu, Ni etc.) but the final stage would be lower SIR. In my experience other metals except for tin do not lead to
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 28 10:51:38 EDT 2001 | nifhail
I'm curious over what would happen if we continue to use the WS paste when dealing with uBGA. Definitely the cured flux under uBGA package couldn't be cleaned/reached and as I understand correctly they are corrosive. if that so, how long do you guys
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 21 12:03:20 EDT 1999 | Scott Cook
Since Vic posted me privately and asked for the SIR test parameters I spoke of in my other post, I thought I'd respond on the forum. Ok, here they are, per Joe Keller--Solder / process consultant AKA Manko..... This is an accelerated SIR / dendrite
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 06 10:04:29 EDT 2003 | davef
Excess low residue flux is very dangerous to leave on your finished assembly, because it can: * Be corrosive to your solder connections * Promote dendrite growth. To prevent this, follow your supplier's recommendations on: * Applying the proper amou
