Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 30 01:07:34 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| I am a recently graduated Process Engineer. I am working for a company developing and manufacturing printed circuit boards. I am looking for a web link, magazine article, book, etc which describes the processes which happen at a board house. More s
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 21 07:57:20 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | Will somebody please explain HASL (here). Thanks. | | Tryin: HASL: Hot Air Solder Leveled. A board fabrication process that applies an oxidation preventing solder coating to copper pads on the board. Dave F | You do this to keep the green s
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 18 22:49:49 EST 1999 | Chris G.
| We are using .040" diameter fiducials (global and local) on our boards. They are solder covered and HASL. I get batches of boards where the p&p vision system has trouble reading the fiducial. The fiducial looks dark on the screen. The board ven
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 17 05:16:44 EDT 2013 | vincentdesilva2003
Anyone can help me how many percentage of blowholes and pinholes if i do the followings: 1. Increase copper plating thickness more than 25 microns. 2. Pre Baking of PCB to remove gassing by drying out the PCB's
Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 21 09:09:40 EDT 2009 | davef
Your puzzlement about blowholes in PTH solder connections during reflow soldering comes from: * Boards are hydroscopic. So, moisture content of the board is uniform. * Gold plating is uniform. * Nickle plating is uniform. * Copper plating on your PTH
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 29 07:37:45 EDT 2012 | davef
The current discussion about solder fountains has to do with copper dissolution. Broadly, copper dissolution is the weakening of copper traces where a trace and a barrel plating intersect due a loss of the copper into the solder. Longer contact time
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 01 15:26:43 EST 2005 | GS
Is it this your first experience of C-CGA RWK ? In order to approach a RWK of this kind of pakage it requires a capable process and clear operating procedure. In the past, the company who I use to work for, we rwkd plenty of this kind of CCGA. Earl
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 22 17:01:31 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | Board shops and us, the user, have a lot on our hands. As far as getting traces - this is done using an etch resist before solder mask and the HASL processes are performed. | So when in the process is HASL performed?? | | | With tin/lead pla
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 24 07:12:44 EDT 1998 | Tryin'
What conditions make Earl Moon say "damn, why can't XXX get the HASL right? Just look at this crummy board. Get a RMA No. Stat." | | | Board shops and us, the user, have a lot on our hands. As far as getting traces - this is done using an etch re
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 26 17:48:12 EDT 2000 | ptvianc
Hi: Generlly speaking, in a reactive mode, nitrogen blankets are used to improve the yield of a process that is marginal in terms of removing, and/or preventing the re-appearence of, oxides on copper features or component I/Os. That marginality can
