Electronics Forum: solder mask (Page 70 of 151)

In your experience, do your customers care....

Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 13 15:17:03 EDT 2008 | slthomas

about WHY violating IPC design standards gives you grief? Do they even know they exist? We've got one in particular that seems to shoot from the hip. I want to tell them the "why" as well as the "what" so they'll be a little more proactive. My fee

Have any paper or data talking about "BGA Stencil design guideline for avoid bridge"?

Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 07 11:46:29 EDT 2018 | dleeper

Air gap on the PCB is determined the pad spacing which in turn is governed by the component. As long as the PCB designer is following the typical BGA layout best practices; i.e no open via in pad, non-solder mask defined pads, solder mask covered tra

Solder Mask for Wave Rework

Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 29 04:08:55 EDT 2020 | tomzhao2

PCB Electronics Ltd, a leading corporation focusing on one-stop service for PCB&PCBA ,has a management team of 15-year experience in EMS industry. Productivity: 2 layers to 32 layers, including HDI, flex-rigid boards etc. Application fields: C

Chip Components with big ground pads - Unsolder

Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 10 15:13:06 EST 2004 | patthemack

Hey Vinny, Sorry I haven't looked at this for a while. 3 things to try: Tombstoning- The ground plane side is larger because the solder mask allows for a little slop at the board shop (clearance around a pad of a few mils). Since there is not a defi

Re: De-wetting

Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 19 19:04:55 EDT 1999 | Brian Wycoff

| | Can anyone help on the subject of de-wetting during the spray coating process. We use PC29M Parts A+B spray coating material, Humiseal tapes and masking dots, Marigold supertouch V70N gloves and Concoat CM533 liquid masking material. We also use

Re: Discoloured soldermask

Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 22 20:26:39 EDT 1999 | Dave F

| | On various PCB's after building processes,such as reflow, flowsolder and wash. The soldermask on the PCB's have become discoloured, like a 'marble' effect all along the solder side of the board, it is lighter in contrast than normal, although whe

Fine pitch wave soldering

Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 15 12:30:05 EDT 2006 | Steve

If the package is robust enough to handle surface mount followed by a pass through the wave soldering process, we have had excellent results populating the fine pitch parts with the P&P machine, reflow, then mask the solder joints prior to wave solde

Re: Gold boards

Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 06 17:42:49 EDT 1998 | Bruce Houghton

| I'm having a problem getting good reflow on gold sufaced boards. The profile looks good and I have adjusted it both hotter and colder and adjusted the various times ( soak, reflow ) to no avail. What realy gets me Is that a month ago we built some

Stacking of Bare Boards

Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 07 10:26:01 EDT 2000 | Ashok Dhawan

I have come across a number of cases where Solder Mask is chipped off or scratched. I was wondering this has anything to do with : **Packing of PCBs in stacks and vacuum sealed **Stacking of PCBs prior to print operation What is general practice i

Stencil Cleaning OnBoard Forum Now In Progress

Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 21 20:00:09 EST 2001 | davef

Sounds like you received some good advice. Most of our stencils are used once a day [at most], so more often than not they are air dried. If we goof-up and need to reuse a stencil during a day when we have limited drying capacity, we wipe the lowes


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