Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 12 10:50:19 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| Hello everyone, | | I would like to know more about the so called FACETED or "Mirror ball" surface apperance. Its cause and how to eliminate / corrective actions for it. | | pls. help... | | thanks and best regargs, | ...Omat | Omat While I hav
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 30 04:36:54 EDT 1998 | Jacqueline Coia
Still cant get a fix to SMD soldering problems, Joints still look strong shiny and well wetted, although when pulled lead still coming away from pad, leaving a dull grainy looking space. This is occuring just after reflow (convection), no other proc
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 12 00:16:43 EDT 1998 | Ron Costa
Hello everyone, I am currently running a gold plated SMT board and am experiencing tiny solder balls between the pads and the masking between the 20 mil pitch devices. I'm looking at these boards with a 60x microscope. IPC-610 say's any visible solde
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 01 17:40:52 EST 2001 | davef
Listen to Wolfgang. Your dull solder connection is a process indicator. Some 63Sn / Au solder connections look grainy, depending on how your process them and the materials involved. Gold dissolving in tin forms an intermetallic compound [AuSn4] th
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 26 14:43:43 EDT 2002 | Jim M.
unsure of what solder spec. your working to?.IPC/EIA J-STD-001C, Section 9.2.4 clearly states dull, matte, gray or grainy appearing solders are accpetable depending on your process and if the acceptability of the neaxt paragraph is met.IPC 610 and J-
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 10 10:26:56 EST 2002 | davef
Questions are: * What is the current plating on the connector that is over the "plating of the leads is Nickel (99.9% purity)"? * What are the temperatures and durations at those temperatures that you read on these connector leads? * What solder allo
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 24 11:05:38 EST 2003 | johnw
I fyour just using Sn/Pb in your paste even using nitrogen will lave you with slightly grainy joints. The silver from your PCB will disolve into the Sn/Pb at 'uncontrolled' rate what I mean is depending on the temperature and time above liquidous the
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 24 19:19:11 EST 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi Don't really know what "your grainy" means. It could be good, marginal, or bad. You need to get some photos or micrographs of what is normal and off-normal. Compared to Sn/Pb 63/37 on mostly Sn it should look visually different. Every time you c
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 07 07:16:25 EST 2004 | davef
Cold solder prior to properly performing a well designed drop test. Actually, "cold solder" means different things to different people. Two dull solder connection conditions are: * "Disturbed" solder joint: a solder joint that has an "angular face
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 22 20:41:11 EDT 2004 | C.W
hi All, i have recently running a Ceramic board with silver/palladium surface finish, using Alpha Metal 63/37 WS solder paste, soldering meet IPC standard after reflow, however, the solder joint look grainy, not sure if there could be too much interm
