Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 26 10:40:43 EDT 2005 | patrickbruneel
Jimmy, We've been soldering tin plated components and Ni/Sn (100% Tin) boards with leaded solder in the 80's in hirel and military applications. We never experienced reliability issues with the mechanical or electrical properties of the solder joint
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 03 06:52:45 EST 2004 | paul_bmc
About 2 years ago our company tried to go with a post reflow AOI inspection. This AOI was suppose to be able to inspect to a level class 3 product. **It is impossible** You cannot inspect for a heel fillet and inspecting for poor wetting is a very
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 06 10:12:44 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| | Is the no clean solder paste as good? We are wondering if we can elliminate the wash when we change from through hole to surface mount. | | | John, | | No clean is as good as your process, and the paste you are using. Everything I do is no cle
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 24 15:37:50 EDT 2006 | Chunks
Hi Any, This is from an earlies thread "Solder Ball After Reflow Process". Date: August 16, 2006 01:52 PM Author: Russ Subject: Solder Ball After Reflow Process Oven settings are meaningless here. What does the board see? It is the paste we a
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 22 15:38:48 EST 2019 | tsauve
Anyone have experience (good or bad) directly reflow soldering microSD card (Pb-free) to PCB. asking for a friend :)
Electronics Forum | Thu May 29 18:58:41 EDT 2003 | davef
Lead free solder is bad for the environment, while increasing product costs. The US looked at restricting lead use a few years ago, took no action, and has no plans to enact frivolous legislation like the "greens" have foisted upon the Eurolanders a
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 27 08:14:59 EDT 2004 | iqbal
Is anybody doing BGA soldering water clean solder. If yes how you are ensure cleaness. We have boards with Four BGA and 2000 chip and ICs.We are processing with no clean solder but we are getting bad wetting so now we are planning to switch to water
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 13 12:01:26 EDT 2000 | Wolfgang Busko
Hi Charly, short question, short answer: excessive mechanical influence often in combination with bad solderjoint itself. For bad solderjoints there are many many reasons, process and material related. Are there any special circumstances that made y
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 01 11:19:47 EST 2011 | jeddmartens
I have no knowledge into PCB designing with surface mount components, all my experience has been with through hole components. I now have to design PCBs using surface mount parts. I have a few questions I was hoping someone could answer. Can a PCB w
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 23 17:59:02 EDT 2005 | davef
Jason: We'd like to help, but we don't know how to diagnose "bad solder quality". It's too broad of a complaint. Please be more descriptive, like: * Too much solder * Too little solder * Solder has too sharp of wetting angle
