Electronics Forum | Fri May 03 18:10:17 EDT 2002 | stownsend
Okay, here goes another thread about gold plating. I have been using gold plated PCB's for about two years now, with mostly very good results. The main reason I started using gold in the first place was because it is flat, solder wets to it nicely,
Electronics Forum | Thu May 09 17:16:16 EDT 2002 | davef
Russ makes a good point. While your profile probably meets your paste supplier recommendations, it may not be proper for the component. * Paste suppliers offer general recommendations for tin / lead interconnects. You need to modify that for board
Electronics Forum | Tue May 07 05:55:58 EDT 2002 | ianchan
Hi mate, do you mean : 1) Au = "ENIG" or "immersion Au(gold)"? or 2) Ag as in = "silver"? If Au is the correct term, no need to make extreme changes in your profile. just keep the profile to within your paste specs of preheat, reflow time and reflo
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 01 18:00:19 EDT 2002 | stefwitt
I guess we can only speculate about the outcome of this recession. By shifting manufacturing to China, we also transfer technology and know how. If just the market of telecommunication takes off, boards of the latest technology ( flip chip, wafer fe
Electronics Forum | Tue May 28 21:00:59 EDT 2002 | davef
That is the rub here, isn�t it? For those posting, it�s easier [but much slower] to start a new thread than to search the archives. [And posters could view their issue so unique and novel that it could never have been discussed several years earlie
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 03 21:02:42 EDT 2002 | ianchan
Ok let's start backwards abit, and move progressively from a common understanding. So this originator thread-slinger bloke is asking for advise to Au plate his connector pads. We have a cuppa ideas bounced around which leads to my ignorance based q
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 14 14:05:22 EDT 2002 | mjabure
Never try to convince an exec. staff to change manning policies using efficiency, it's a losing cause. Look at your audience, they probably all have MBA's which means they only look at the dollars and cents. To them those aren't production machines o
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 18 23:34:28 EDT 2002 | kenbliss
Todd, I am unaware why you are clearly irritated with me. I am just trying to help you and anyone else that I feel I have information or ideas that could be of use, if my ideas are not useful to you please ignore them. You are clearly unaware of my
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 14 00:35:58 EDT 2002 | kenbliss
DaveF's request for more data of course is needed to be specific, but here are a few ideas and places to start. If the SMT line is causing the defects you need to identify where on the line the problem is being caused. What we see regularly is mish
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 17 17:02:38 EDT 2002 | kenbliss
Dave, in theory I agree with you, but in the real world isn't the expensive fruit, the fruit you spend countless hours trying to fix a small defect that has a fixed cost, the cost of the board as a single unit. Versus the cost of running the factory
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