Electronics Forum | Sun Nov 21 21:40:13 EST 2004 | John
I'm experiencing an impedance breakdown on an 0805 ceramic cap. In the application, the cap is at a 16V bias at all times. The unit failed in an extremely high humidity condition. We are using a NC flux and have determined there was flux underneat
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 27 22:40:28 EST 2007 | davef
IPC-A-600G, 2.9 Solder Resist [Solder Mask] [snip]"Solder resists are used to limit and control the application of solder to selected areas of the printed circuit board during assembly soldering operations and are sometimes used to reduce dendritic f
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 20 08:57:13 EST 2008 | tonyamenson
We test for board cleanliness using an ionic tester. It's been my experience that if your board is clean you take away the possibility of growth even if the unit encounters moisture. We actaully had a problem where our wash lost pressure due to a mi
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 20 17:05:42 EDT 2008 | naynayno
We have experienced contamination under flat chip arrays. The lab report is still open but it appears to be dendrite growth. We have been trouble-shooting our process and cleaning equipment. My question is are there any specific design or best p
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 07 12:34:30 EDT 2019 | teejsd
C3 just uses heated DI water that it applies, then pulls back into a disposable cartridge. Machine then applies a 10V charge to the sample & measures leakage current(nA,I think) over time(sec). If the leakage current is high enough/fast enough, you
Electronics Forum | Sat Sep 25 07:07:02 EDT 1999 | Brian
| I need a memory jog. What is the term for the growth of conductive contamination after a board is in storage or field? | There are several different mechanisms which can cause this. In reality, ionic contamination is the root cause for many of the
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 17 12:08:13 EDT 1998 | Graham Naisbitt
Wayne, I think Dave and Justin are correct but I would just add my twopennworth: Your customer presumably wants to know if the end-product will be reliable? If he/she wants you to prove cleanliness, ask them for the spec they want to work to and app
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 10 09:01:15 EDT 2005 | fctassembly
Hello Joseph, Sorry for the bad news but microcracking is a well known potential condition occuring with the SAC305 alloy. Microcracking is a condition being seen with many joints soldered with the SAC305 alloy. It is technically a shrinkage cavity
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 01 13:44:57 EDT 1999 | Scott Cook
| Can someone suggest what material I have to use to protect components by electrical discharge on ptfe based boards? | It should have high resistivity, thermal stability (-40 +70 'C),perfect adherence on ptfe... | Many tahnks | Don't know what you
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 17 02:45:18 EDT 1998 | Bob Willis
| 5 micrograms per sq. cm. is actually not too clean. The maximum military allowed post-clean, on-board contamination is 5.7 micrograms of NaCl /cm squared (when using the Zero-Ion brand ionic contamination tester). | We are use to seeing cleanlines
