Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 28 07:31:37 EDT 2005 | avalancher
I have always encountered problems when using Kester (everything from bad solder to solder balls). I have profiled the boards to the extreme thinking it was my reflow recipie, but with no luck. I ended up going to AIM and I have never had a problem s
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 30 10:17:16 EDT 2010 | markgray
We currently use this devise in one of our designs with no issues. We are using a 3mil stencil and a 45% apperature reduction. It is virtually impossible to eliminate voids but they are in an acceptable range. Solder balls are caused on this componen
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 18 13:17:37 EDT 2004 | Steve
I would suggest first looking into whom your local distributor is for the Aim product line. Or for that matter any solder product Alpha, Kester etc. Does the distributor stock the product at all times? I find that alot of Manufacturers and their reps
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 11 10:41:58 EDT 2006 | dsuraski
Cuculi, I'm sorry to hear this. AIM prides itself on our service and support, but clearly something fell through the cracks here. If you would, please contact me offline at dsuraski@aimsolder.com and I will make sure that you receive the support y
Electronics Forum | Wed May 07 15:36:04 EDT 2008 | llaerum
The 483 is what we use on all boards except on one where the 353 improved wetting on resistor packs. It worked much better since the parts are LF and this is the same flux AIM uses in their LF solder. Yes, it was recommended by AIM when we discussed
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 16 10:08:56 EDT 2009 | waveroom
Sorry for the delay. We are actually pretty busy over here. We have found the Aim 257-2 no-clean sac305 paste offers very little if any voiding and better wetting in lead free terminated devices. My suggestion is contact your local Aim distributor fo
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 17 09:39:07 EDT 2009 | rkevin
I received my sample jar of NC257-2 SAC305 from Aim, and while that may have been true about older Aim paste formulations, this stuff prints and reflows better than anything I have tried and more importantly there were practically no voids on a 256 B
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 28 10:11:27 EST 2005 | jbrower
Hi Ing, My suggestion is to take a good look at your profile(s). The Wave solder machine that I use is an Electrovert EPK I. I use Aim ultra pure 63/37 solder with an older kester flux, 920CFX. I recently switched from kester ultrapure to the aim ba
Electronics Forum | Sat Apr 15 14:28:26 EDT 2006 | Dan Mendoza
This may sound like advertasing, but I ran a DOE with five solder paste/flux manufacturers and somehow, the voids went away with the AIM solder.
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 05 11:04:06 EST 2012 | emeto
AIM can give a good result, I tried the solder > paste from many manufacturer - AIM, Kester, > Indium, Koki, Alpha Metals, Heraeus - but I > stopped my choice at Kester. For example, right > now I have EM907 with date of manufacture in > februar
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