Electronics Forum | Fri May 14 00:28:09 EDT 1999 | Mike D.
| I am seeing reflow around my signal pins after being subjected | to a profile of 204c for 1 minute and 225c for a min of 30 seconds. Signal pins are soldered into a copper plated alum. case with SB5 and then silver plated. The pins have a hot oil
Electronics Forum | Sun Nov 24 10:12:44 EST 2002 | kcorrin
Thanks for your response Dave. I did look at the bare boards after wave solder and they seem to solder fine in that process. I do not see any soldermask bleed on bare boards. Regarding "thin" plating...I have had issues in the past when the board sup
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 03 15:19:32 EDT 2022 | dwl
I don't recall thicknesses off the top of my head but brittleness becomes an issue more for gold plating then ENIG. .125 um should be fine. also, gold ain't cheap so its unlikely your PCB fab will get anywhere near the max tolerance. On the other e
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 08 09:23:18 EST 2013 | lock_2002
This is a question regarding soldermask between pins of fine pitch devices. The majority of our production designs end up with at least 2-3 mils of copper thickness on the external layers due to blind vias, wrap plating requirements, etc. Our curre
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 14 10:49:13 EDT 1999 | Dan Woodward
Andrew, As I read about issues with reworking connectors, whether they are surface mount or PTH soldered, I wonder if compliant pin pressfit connectors are being considered. They are easily assembled after all SMT without any thermal input, and on e
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 02 21:24:27 EST 2000 | Dave F
Glen: As I mention in an earlier response in this thread, I think someone at Steve's plant (or may be in his packaging spec for the fabs) is doing something to leave a residue, but I'm also thinking solder mask ... ENIG can be applied before or aft
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 02 21:24:27 EST 2000 | Dave F
Glen: As I mention in an earlier response in this thread, I think someone at Steve's plant (or may be in his packaging spec for the fabs) is doing something to leave a residue, but I'm also thinking solder mask ... ENIG can be applied before or aft
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 18:07:25 EST 2006 | Chris
Flash gold is just thin gold plating over electroless nickel or electrolytic nickel. Flash gold is electrolytic gold where the panel is connected to a plating rectifier and current causes the plating process to occur. Gold thickness is controlled b
Electronics Forum | Sat Apr 03 05:22:46 EST 2004 | wsanita
Customer returned a board and a 50 pin connector with .020" pitch that "fell off". after looking under a scope i can see the plating of the connector embedded in the solder. To me it looks like it broke off. Designer did not put the anchor pads on th
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 27 12:09:41 EDT 2000 | JohnW
Jason, where on the board is your connector?, front / back / middle? and where it on the PCB that you don't have issues with? Thief pad's are basically dummy pad's taht you have after the last set of pin's on the component are are used to draw the
