Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 22 15:41:39 EDT 2007 | davef
Bruno The real question about your troop using Kester 951 wave solder flux on boards is: how is the flux applied and controlled. See, when you apply this flux with your wave solder fluxer, it is ideally applied in a metered fashion with your fluxer
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 17 05:14:40 EDT 2008 | gregoryyork
I have seen similar things like this before with Solder Resist redepositig back on the pads, this is a clear residue very hard to see. Solder resist will obviously resist solder adhering to it. If you rework the boards then the heat of the iron will
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 10 08:30:20 EST 2008 | rgduval
Are you using no-clean solder, or just no clean flux? If you're using a solder with WS flux in the core, and a no-clean flux; we'd suggest switching to a WS flux to help during the soldering. If you are using a no-clean solder/flux combination, you
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 28 07:42:07 EDT 2009 | Mike Konrad
Hi Sean, No-clean flux does leave a residue. Under the best conditions, it is invisible. There are many factors that can cause the residue to become visible such as an inadequate oven profile (or lack of proper preheat on a wave). Also, if wave s
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 10 15:15:17 EDT 2009 | indity
I have very little knowledge of pick and place machines or assembly, and was hoping someone could give me some advice of where to start looking. I do learn quickly so I am not afraid of challenges or learning through mistakes. I need to produce abou
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 18 22:22:43 EDT 2009 | comatose
Assuming you want to run 8 hours a day and 5 days a week, you need a sustained throughput of 2.5k components per hour. With fine pitch, futzing around, setup, etc you should really look for machines rated in the 4k to 5k per hour range. That's not sc
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 19 15:45:21 EDT 2010 | dwonch
Thanks to all for your input. We did have a third party do an analysis on boards from the first shop. They were shipped directly from the board shop to eliminate the possibility that we could contaminate them. The third party (Forsite) did find Sili
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 09 19:09:52 EDT 2010 | rway
A couple of things: Does the cap break if you try to remove it with hot air? If not, than you are breaking the caps do to mechanical stress. We have had similar issues. I don't think your board is suffering from mechanical stress from depaneling o
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 13 08:32:24 EDT 2013 | rway
Have you verified the measurements on the bench with an LCR meter? Chances are you are experiencing aging with these ceramic caps. We have similar issues with X5R and X7R caps. You will see the effects of aging with returns from the field as well
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 01 17:34:45 EST 2018 | Mike Konrad
Thanks for the kind words Dave. At no point in my reply was I trying to sell anything. I apologize to anyone who believes otherwise. I agree with the poster, if assemblies are going to be cleaned, consider a flux designed to be cleaned. While this is
