Electronics Forum | Mon May 07 16:49:59 EDT 2001 | davef
Ashok, What in earthly heaven does this question have to do with "site support"? You can�t always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need. Some leads are: * The proposed IPC cable/wire harness document is now IPC/WHMA-A-620 and go
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 01 12:23:22 EDT 2001 | medernach
I've had good and bad experiences with OSP's. First of all, ask yourself, "Why use an OSP?" If you don't need it, don't use it. Solderability is dependent upon the number of thermal passes (the fewer, the better), the thickness of the coating, the
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 25 20:37:14 EDT 2001 | davef
You are 100% correctamundo that the pad on PCB should be the same as the pad on the BGA interposer, but let�s not expend that thinking to the aperture of your solder paste stencil, right away. Generally, paste on large pitch BGA is often 1:1, but as
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 30 11:03:29 EDT 2001 | davef
Nice to have you back on SMTnet. Some of the newer folk have missed-out on the solid contributions you�ve made to the Forum. The chicken wire cleaning basket was a classic!!! [It�s a shame that the folk at SMTnet can�t recover those files.] We bu
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 30 11:28:24 EDT 2001 | davef
Consider using a roll solder with a flux that well matches the residues you can accept to be remaining on the board when you get finished processing. Many people use a no-clean flux cored roll solder for such operations, because they don't want to c
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 04 11:10:56 EDT 2001 | davef
It�s tough to say. You need enough, but you can�t have too much because you slop it all over the pads, but if you have too little � well you get the picture. There�s so many ways to get to the same place. There is no standard. It�s whatever you n
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 16 21:25:26 EDT 2001 | davef
Sure, use of U-shape apertures is another way to reduce the amount of paste that you apply. That and similar schemes mentioned in the article are not a function of the flux used. We have used U-shaped apertures for MELF and mini-MELF. They are sug
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 05 09:08:18 EST 2000 | Dave F
Casimir: Let me expand on something that I said in my response to your thread on ionic testing. Generally, no-clean people don�t use ROSE testing as part of their process control, because the ROSE test is essentially washing your board in DI/IPA �
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 03 21:17:07 EST 2000 | Dave F
AF: Unfortunately, there is no "acceptable number of cycles" either in air-to-air and one liquid-liquid thermocycling, nor interconnect stress testing. There can be a "minimum threshold" that would assure no failures as the result of the assembly p
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 23 22:31:47 EST 1999 | Vincent Chen
Hi!Charlie, 1.Are you retrofitting your spray fluxer in your wave soldering machine? If you are, please ensure that you have a air knife just before the preheater!Fluxe fumes tends to accumulate and that could be dangerous if your air exhaust is not