Electronics Forum | Thu May 26 16:41:00 EDT 2011 | scottp
Here's what I do: - Test Surface Insulation Resistance (we're in the high reliability market and use a test significantly harder than IPC's). I also test SIR in combination with other assembly materials like conformal coatings and wave solder flux
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 08 20:58:49 EST 2005 | davef
We buy humidity as a potential cause of solder balls, but we're not biting on dewetting. Something else is causing that. Questions are: * What's the temperature and RH of your SMT production area? * What kind of paste are you using? [Some water was
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 09 02:24:49 EST 2005 | laxman
Hi Dave, Normally in our country (India) during rainy season the temperature will be 25to 30 �C and RH of 50 to 60%. The reason behind this humidity issue is that recently we have moved to our new facility with centralised air conditioner with Chill
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 04 15:42:03 EST 2002 | nwyatt
There are several implications: - some lead free alloys do not form an acceptable solder joint when used with lead contaning paste. (ie. Bismuth) - if you use both lead free and lead containing components, you will have different solder joint compos
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 21 12:35:59 EST 2006 | CK the Flip
It probably depends on the Silver content. We are also using Sn62Pb36Ag2. The paste manufacturer told us that the reason for the small silver content was so that it could wet better to the lead-free component and board finishes bearing silver.
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 08 17:05:01 EDT 2007 | klaughton
I have instituted a policy that probably seems a little extreme to some, but is worth the cost in my eyes. Once a jar of solder paste is opened, it must be thrown away at the end of the work day (Properly discarded, of course). We use the small 250
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 10 14:34:56 EST 2014 | jigo91
Hi, I wanted to know how can we test our paste quality, as viscosity, temperature in which it is delivered to the SMT line and other variables that can affect our paste dispense or soldering. Our concerns are that paste quality may be causing solde
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 11 12:44:32 EST 2014 | cyber_wolf
Jigo, We have never had a need to do internal testing on solder paste, and your paste supplier should be able to tell you what the correct operating temperature range is. All of the big names in solder paste have tight quality control and I suspect t
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 10 09:39:32 EDT 2004 | Bryan Sherh
Dears, I've a board with OSP surface finish,and I planned to print solder paste on the test pad for easy ICT, because the probe can't reach the OSP covered pad.But to my surprise,after reflow there's much flux residue on top of test pad(or solder) an
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 13 18:34:31 EDT 2004 | russ
Use Water soluble if you can, if not I would try the Indium SMQ NC paste, this residue stays soft. I would also change ICT probes to the "drill type". Russ
