Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 17 14:18:11 EDT 2005 | ppwlee
Dave, Answers to your questions: * From your pictures, the white residue appears to be only on the solder mask. Is that correct? If not, what is the location [eg, solder, nonsolder/nonmask areas] of the residue that doesn't show well in the pictur
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 11 22:06:00 EDT 2001 | davef
The issue is not the cleanliness of your in-bound water. The issue is the cleanliness of the board your customer receives. Look at J-STD-001C, Para 8, "Cleanliness Requirements". The end product cleanliness is the end result of your: * In-bound
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 12 18:06:17 EDT 2001 | davef
The criterion you use will depend on the test method you select. For minimum requirements, look at J-STD-001C, Para 8, "Cleanliness Requirements". I figure that you�d measure the residues on a lot of your current product, measure the res on a lot o
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 30 21:03:44 EDT 2001 | davef
You should specify the level of res based on the effect of the res on the end-use of the product. J-STD-001 defines cleanliness requirements for ALL flux types, including water soluble and no-clean that you mention. 1 There is no equivalency betwee
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 01 22:24:53 EST 1999 | Dave F
| It seems to be that we have to much NaCl left on our assambled PCB's. | The flux we use is from cobar. They say it can not be from the flux... So what can be the reason, what kind of problem may occer when there is to much NaCl. | George: When so
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 28 19:07:47 EDT 1998 | Steve Gregory
| I have had some field failures returned recently, the boards had flux contamination under the components in a sensitive area, Nothing really visible until the component was removed, and the board had no evidence of rework of any type. Is it poss
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 08 20:57:52 EST 2001 | Dave F
Are you talking about bare board cleanliness or assembly level cleanliness? Bare board cleanliness is still primarily measured by resistivity of solvent extract (ROSE) using instruments such as Omegameters and Zero Ions. What is considered as "acce
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 02 12:11:31 EST 2000 | Dave F
Casimir: Resistivity of Solvent Extract (ROSE) testers measure ionic contamination by washing boards with a DI water/IPA solution. (No-clean people: Stop and go on to something else.) The testers are process control instruments used to monitor a
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 29 22:31:06 EST 1998 | Kelvin Chow
It is still a big concern on using No-clean or aqueous cleaning for CSP assembly. I prefer to use no-clean, however, not all components are suitable to use it. Especially those dirty capacitors or connectors which may cause solderability problem. It
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 30 17:34:23 EST 1998 | Michael Allen
I'm afraid we don't agree regarding the best test method to use here. My understanding is as follows. The omegameter test measures board-level, ionic contamination (i.e., average for the entire board area and all components); it does not tell you w
