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Best practice to validate the old - more than 5 year old parts

Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 13 10:33:27 EST 2019 | ameenullakhan

Dear Dave, We cant change the solder paste. Its a for defense and aerospace projects. Customer won't agree on it . We have major issue in ROL0 Flux classified solder paste. cannot go for aggressive flux chemistry. So need a good method to hold th

Parts Pushing Through Paper Tape

Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 05 08:53:21 EST 2023 | tommy_magyar

Check manufacturing date code (if you can) on the reels against your receipt of the material. If you are a contract manufacturer you could make a supplier quality claim if they have sent you expired components (and you did not know). A relatively eas

BGA Solder Short

Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 18 00:15:37 EDT 2023 | hazira1991

Is a fresh lot. This bga is old date code 2010. we had received this BGA 2021 and the baking process is done during receiving time. Production received with vacuum seal , its very hard to tell how the BGA handling and stuff and the BGA already EOL. I

Black pad defect on gold plated boards

Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 21 22:10:07 EDT 2003 | adlsmt

Well, for some reason the board house will pay for the boards but has some issue with paying for the parts on them. Why am I not supprised? Perhaps I have mis-diagnosed the problem. We have found two different board p/n's with the same type of defec

Re: Dark Pad / Gold Embrittlement?

Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 26 10:57:16 EDT 2000 | Steve Schrader

Doug, We've suffered through similar frustrations. One thing we found that might be of some help is uur supplier, unbeknownst to us, was outsourcing their immersion gold. Their supplier apparently lost control of their process for a period of a fe

Non-wetting on 0402 chips capacitors

Electronics Forum | Wed May 09 17:26:57 EDT 2001 | davef

Awww, don beso tuff on ursef!!! It sounds like you�re thinking correctly with what you�ve done, but it�s possible that the test you ran did not represent your actual production environment as well as you would have liked. So, you just need to "cran

Re: Problems with Ceramic Capacitor SMD In-Circuit Test

Electronics Forum | Thu May 06 01:37:56 EDT 1999 | Kallol Chakraborty

| I would like to know if someone aleady have problems with Ceramic Capacitors SMD in In-Circuit Test (see below)and how did you solve this problems ? | | PROBLEMS | 1 - Only one kind of capacitor (2n2F), of all capacitors on board, sometimes are o

Lead-Free Bom Conversion (please read)

Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 21 17:46:33 EST 2005 | muse95

Wow - 11,000. We have 8K-9K, and we have had three people working on it for the last 6mos, around their other duties. We aren't done. Some MFR's changed PN's. Some add G, some add LF, some add NOPB, some add Z, Some add a "+", etc. Some have no d

Re: SMD reeled components

Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 09 21:41:27 EST 2000 | Dave F

Jack: You should use your components promptly. Don't store 'em, only bad things will happen to them. 1 You should store all your components, not just your SMD reeled components, so they are not damaged or their solderability decreased. Check the

The story so far!

Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 04 22:04:42 EST 2006 | KEN

1. Customers want simultainous manufacturing of PB and PB free assemblies but don't want to pay for separate toolng. 2. Customers wants PB free boards and doesn't understand lead parts can not go in the wave. Then gripe about missed shipping date


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