Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 09 12:05:44 EDT 2008 | tonyamenson
First and fore most is to find your paste manufacturer spec sheets. Read it over several times and let it all sink in. Then call them with questions as they want to keep your business so their engineers want to help you use their product. I assume y
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 04 14:18:05 EDT 2006 | C.K. the Flip
The main cause of voids is your flux out-gassing during reflow. Try a little "knee" or slight soak in your thermal profile to dry out the volatiles a bit. Typical soak ranges from 130 deg. C to 170 deg. C for around 30-90 seconds.
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 19 16:38:39 EST 2012 | dyoungquist
We are not using SN100C in our reflow process but I know the type of flux made a big difference with our SAC305 solder. We started out using no-clean flux in our SAC305 paste and were having some issues. We then switched over to a water soluble flu
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 08 09:16:37 EDT 2006 | james
We are incurring problems with Film Chip Capacitors with reflow issues. Some of the parts are misaligning or not soldering on one end (almost tombstoning) . We left the parts in the dry cabinet till they were used. We tried both reflow ovens (hell
Electronics Forum | Sun May 23 07:13:56 EDT 1999 | Scott Cook
| Has anyone had any experience or data using vibration during the reflow process. | We introduced a vibration device attached to the fixed rail on a Vitronics reflow oven. The reason was to prevent skewing on large PLCC devices. The process worked v
Electronics Forum | Sun Jan 14 12:42:35 EST 2007 | SMTRework
I think the main cause of this condition is #3 because both #1 and #2 never change from board to board, these are identical boards with identical BGA revisions. These BGA's (as stated before) are about 3 years old.. I don't believe they are lead free
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 12 10:21:06 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| I need some advice concerning reflow of a BGA-292. Since I am not ready to change my entire process to no-clean, I decided to place the lone BGA-292 on a proto run using our BGA re-work station. The pcb is a moderately dense, single-sided, 8-laye
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 01 16:02:33 EST 2000 | Jim M
Thanks for your reply. I 've tried to clarify and answer your questions. The water soluble paste used is WS3060, type 4. The boards are sent through a inline di cleaner after reflow. There is a hot Di waterwash, rinse and then hot air to dry the wa
Electronics Forum | Mon May 09 11:43:04 EDT 2005 | paulhaines2000
We use a "McDry" cabinet for humidity control of opened, moisture sensitive parts. Relatively cheap and works good. This cabinet is installed right on the SMT line. Check out: http://www.seikausa.com/products/mcdry/
Electronics Forum | Mon May 09 12:26:17 EDT 2005 | stepheniii
If followed, would the following strategy meet the requirements of IPC/JEDEC J-STD-033A; All MSD components are either exposed for less than 1/2 an hour or final reflowed within 12 hours of opening. What I mean by exposed is any time the parts are n
