Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 11 14:48:00 EDT 2006 | flipit
Hi, I live in Minneapolis,MN USA. I was watching the news last night and began to laugh. There was a news story on the benefits of silver in fighting infection and healing. I know first hand that silver fights bacteria. I set myself on fire worki
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 05 12:52:34 EDT 2006 | Mario Scalzo, SMT CPE
Good afternoon! Typically, we normally recommend testing the pot, and adding either Sn/Ag or just Sn to keep it at bay. One nice thing about the solubility of Cu in Sn based alloys is that it should reach a theoretical upper limit of about 0.1%. I
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 04 15:06:57 EDT 2006 | C.K. the Flip
Hmmm.. you are in a pickle then. I have AIM's "Reflow Profile Supplement" where they recommend a Low-Long-Soak (LSS) profile for situations like your's. It's an old-school type profiling approach where you ramp up to 120*C for about 1 min. then soa
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 05 11:48:00 EDT 2006 | Mario Scalzo, SMT CPE
Good morning all. We are able to offer some insight into the problem and offer a recommended reflow profile to solve this issue, but it really depends on the solder paste that you use, as different manufacturers use different boiling point solvents.
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 03 11:06:13 EST 2006 | rgduval
The process that burnt the tips up yesterday was hand soldering/touch up of lead-free assemblies. Not even assembly, but just touching up boards that we've soldered on a solder pot...which will lead to another question. We're using SAC 305 WS482 3
Electronics Forum | Sun Nov 05 23:01:53 EST 2006 | Sxsxcx
ok, sorry ,750 was deg F and which I said 350~400 were deg C, I got a mistake. As I know, we use 660~720 deg F to do reworking for lead free solders such as SAC series and SnCu0.7 series solder to protect irons and components on boards. when temp.
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 06 02:56:11 EST 2006 | Loco
*We've tried the WSP80s for leadfree, also SAC. Problem with these was when they are not being used, they keep their temp and oxidate like hell. Second problem is as Russ states, the sensor is not in the tip, therefore to get the same heat in the t
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 11 08:49:03 EST 2006 | billyd
All: Good morning. I'm writing this morning trying to find out what, right now, is the most used solder alloy out there, industry wide, for lead free applications. I'm talking strictly for reflow, not wave. I have to assume SAC305 is by fa
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 30 12:16:47 EST 2007 | pbarton
We are seeing unusual soldered joints when soldering to components with Pt/Ag metallised terminations. At the margin between the bottom of the component termination and the PCB surface there are a number of blowholes in the bulk solder. There also ap
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 08 08:28:11 EST 2007 | mzaboogie
Good Morning Everyone, We have an application coming up with several BGA's on a RoHS assembly. One is a 25 mil ball on a 40 mil pitch, another is a 15 mil ball on a 40 mil pitch. In the past for leaded assemblies, we have used square apertures for 1
