Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 15 14:35:41 EST 2000 | Balas
hi I am designing a test vehicle with a range of components on it(pbga, cbga,fc, mbga, and qfps). My concern is that I would like to use a single stencil for solder deposition and not a stepped stencil. That would require me to have aperture design a
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 25 09:40:31 EST 1998 | Doug Romm
Steve, TI does not produce any SOTs using Palladium finish leadframes. I would certainly be interested to know who is. Also, your observations are correct: In TI experience the mechanical strength of the solder joints with Pd finish ICs is alw
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 11 14:59:22 EDT 2002 | pjc
Right or wrong, Mydata has a "second user" registration fee policy in order to recieve support. If you paid the fee then you get support. If you are a re-seller and not the end-user, that may explain the treatment you are getting. If you are an end-
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 23 16:59:43 EST 1998 | Doug Romm
Dave, "Paladium Pillows and Bad Dreams"....that's a good one! I've been doing this for the last 9 years and I've heard quite a bit, but that's really cute! Seriously, in reference to the 'pillow effect' when the lead looks like it is "sitting" on to
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 20 10:59:18 EDT 2005 | Jason Fullerton
Extra cooling is better (Alpha recommends -3 to -7 degC/sec) for cosmetics. Less chance of s o called 'cooling lines' that look similar to 'cold' tin-lead joints. (Seems a bit steep to me - I worry about the risk of cracking ceramic caps.) Might be
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 27 11:03:09 EST 2007 | Marcin
Hi All, Anybody knows what is the minimum clearance between through hole component and chip component? Problem description: On bottom side of my pcb are only 0603 chip components mounted on glue. One of the component is located very close to hole
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 06 20:53:23 EST 2020 | mikeyg12
Hello everyone! I have had this idea in my head to DIY a desktop KVM (without the V so I guess just a KM) board that I can solder USB A headers to with a DPDT switch. I designed the board and when I thought it was all good to go I proudly sent it of
Electronics Forum | Sat Jun 12 19:48:47 EDT 2010 | bootstrap
I like what you're doing. 20 years ago anyone, hobbyists and tiny garage-shop companies could create electronics devices just as sophisticated and cool as big corporations. Today, SMT has largely trashed the creativity (and competition) that existe
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 15 16:38:42 EST 2004 | patrickbruneel
Here's my 10 cents Studies done in the 1980's concluded that pure tin was prone to whisker generation. A tin content lower then 70% became exempt from this phenomenon. I have never seen or done any studies on the impact lead had in reducing the pote
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 26 09:18:27 EDT 1999 | C.K.
| | | | Has anyone had trouble waving and gluing 0603 R's and C's? At my company, our designers have "opened the floodgates" on bottom-side 0603's. | | | | | | | | We've got an EPK+ with rotary chip and omega wave but can't seem to get skip-free so
