Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 25 07:37:21 EDT 2017 | stephendo
There are lots of examples of changing a parameter in one direction to fix one issue causes a different problem. Once I asked a layout engineer to adjust thermal relief for through hole parts. First he said ok but a day later he said that he couldn't
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 04 08:32:21 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| | Hello: | | BACKGROUD: SMT components soldered on the top-side of boards that also require wave soldering have the potential to reflow during wave soldering. Reflowing these components during wave soldering is not good. It can cause cold joints
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 03 21:25:33 EDT 1998 | John Allan
| Hello: | BACKGROUD: SMT components soldered on the top-side of boards that also require wave soldering have the potential to reflow during wave soldering. Reflowing these components during wave soldering is not good. It can cause cold joints, op
Electronics Forum | Sun Jan 28 13:26:27 EST 2007 | Sweet Old Bob
Okay you CM haters I don't see anything about the design of the board, other than OSP which is strike one. What is the board size? What is the board thickness? Where is the BGA located on the board? What is your ball to pad ratio? What is your aspect
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 21 13:51:19 EST 2014 | rgduval
Armando, Is the problem in the same spot on the board with every run? If so, there might be something about that particular location that is part of the cause (ie. ground or power plane connection). It sounds like you're seeing blow holes, or insu
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 11 10:14:54 EST 2000 | C.K.
Dave, to answer your questions, point-by-point: � Just out of curiosity, how are second side, skippy components oriented on the board with respect to the wave? The SMD's are all oriented in the "correct" direction with respect to wave direction(i
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 22 11:42:29 EDT 2000 | Chrys Shea
Sal, Silly question: Were the parts skewed before they went into the oven? I've chased down a few similar reflow problems in my lifetime, only to find out it was a pick and place problem. Wrong nozzle size, bad nozzle, feeder not advancing all
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 26 09:46:05 EDT 1999 | C.K.
Chrys: I have checked all the basic elements of Wave solder joint formation: fluxing, preheating, and lastly soldering. For checking the fluxer, i used a product from ECD that's very similar to what you desribed called the flux-o-meter. It did a
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 21 08:14:14 EDT 1998 | Steve Gregory
| Hello: | I would like to know what causes tombstombing and how can it be prevented? | Thx. | Nichol Hi Nichol! A tombstone happens when solder doesn't wet equally on both terminations during reflow...now why that happens can be found by looking at
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 11 21:43:19 EDT 2005 | Ken
Those temp stickers are useless unless you can stick them into the copper barrel. They can only determine "skin" temperature which has nothing to do with what is happening in the barrels. Your solder is filling the barrel then going cold. I'll gua