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Solder balls after wavesolder

Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 14 20:28:24 EST 2001 | davef

Not to worry. Just run the boards through the cleaner. It will remove all the solder balls. The gross filter on your washer will collect all the solder balls. Coo eh? ;-) How to cure SM? Is your mask UV, er thermal? After learning the type, you

Flat Solderable Tin as a PWB solderable surface finish

Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 19 20:15:39 EST 2001 | davef

Now, that is one thickass board!!! The rant first: If our �board supplier changed our board surface finish on� anything without our approval, the board supplier would be an �X�. Life has enough surprises. And of all the flat finishes available, h

stencil cleaning

Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 11 19:12:11 EDT 2002 | djarvis

Sorry fellas -disagree. We only clean our stencils in the ultrasonic machine at the end of the run. If the same pcb is up the next day we clean them by hand. We use Electrolube SSS and the used rolls from the in line under stencil cleaner. Wipe the

Non-wettig on chip cap.

Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 06 23:34:25 EST 2001 | Beny

Pls. help. I�ve problem with non-wetting defect at capacitor termination. I have faced this problem at the 2 kinds of termination. One is chip capacitor 0603 that its outer termination surface composed with 100 Sn (Lead free) and another one is Sta

lead substrate materials

Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 30 17:44:38 EST 2002 | davef

The gold is compatible with your solder. Gold will dissolve in your solder very quickly. Assuming you have a fairly large [~ couple hundred pounds] solder pot, the gold will not, over the short term, affect the performance of the pot. The issue is

Baking time for PCBA rework

Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 07 09:07:10 EST 2002 | fmonette

Dason, Please be aware that weight gain is only a very crude estimate of the component moisture content. This is only accurate when the moisture is uniformly distributed inside the component (which is actually never). This measurement is usually no

Rippling effect of stencils

Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 10 15:02:03 EST 2003 | John

Hi. I am familiar with the Transition blades. Normally, when there is metal to metal contact, as in the squeegee-stencil situation, there will be scratches, or a "brush pattern". Sometimes it takes the pattern of the high profile surface elements u

BGA process requirements

Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 11 18:47:43 EDT 2002 | slthomas

A couple of questions to establish a baseline for when the check writers start asking questions........ How many of you have vision systems on site for BGA inspection? If you don't have it, do you do 100% X-ray, or did you just nail down the proces

Board in/out sensors on reflow machines, do they work well?

Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 16 13:59:33 EDT 2002 | paulausten

They work great as long as your conveyor speed > has been calibrated and checked on some type of > PM schedule. On some oven types these sensors can > warn you to possible problems with the conveyor > speed. Say the oven is calculating that the b

Quad Machines? Good Points / Bad Points

Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 23 12:17:28 EDT 2002 | binns

I have a couple of questions for you, and a couple of answers. 1. Which model ? (100, IIc, IVc, QSV, QSP ) 2. In reference to how the machine stacks up with Fuji and Panasonic. They have never stacked up. Those families of machines have historicall


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