Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 18:07:25 EST 2006 | Chris
Flash gold is just thin gold plating over electroless nickel or electrolytic nickel. Flash gold is electrolytic gold where the panel is connected to a plating rectifier and current causes the plating process to occur. Gold thickness is controlled b
Electronics Forum | Wed May 29 19:12:25 EDT 2002 | russ
If Gold gets to thick you will end up with brittle joints that break! Hard gold plating is usually about 50 microns thick (is that right?) whereas gold immersion is around 7-13 from what I have seen. i once use gold plating on an entire board and ha
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 15 11:40:37 EST 1999 | Bob Willis
| | I am experiencing a problem with a surface mount coax connector that over time pulls loose from the PWB. The connector has 4 small gold plated leads and we are soldering it to a flash gold board. A cable plugs into the connector and puts some c
Electronics Forum | Fri May 13 14:08:39 EDT 2011 | eezday
This appears to be black-pad and is often the result of using specs that call for gold plating that is too thick. The black pad is corrosion that is created between the gold and electroless nickel during the gold plating process. This is counter in
Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 08 06:46:33 EST 2022 | jineshjpr
Hi anyone knows what is the minimum copper foil thickness available across the industries to make PCB surface. Intention is to achieve 23 microns of finished copper thickness in a 0.3mm thickness PCB. Ideally if 3 microns plates are available, additi
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 28 21:07:44 EST 2000 | Alvin K
Gold is porous and spots on gold plated PCBs is one of the drawbacks of using gold as a solderability protector. Base Nickel exposure seems to be the cause of this and is aggravated when the gold thickness is less than what it should be. I agree with
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 24 20:00:24 EST 2002 | davef
If solder touches gold, you should see solder, rather than gold. Since you see gold, something is wrong. * Is the solder touching the gold? If not, why not? * If the solder is touching the gold, but the gold is not soldering, there is a problem w
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 08 20:26:12 EST 2001 | Dave F
Ask your supplier if he will guarantee to cover rework, warranty, and lost business costs, if he's incorrect. Below 2uinch gold is very pourous and not worth anything in preventing corrosion of your nickel undercoat. 3 uinch has to be the absolute
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 09 12:51:52 EDT 2006 | flipit
You can not solder to 30 micro inches of gold over nickel and certainly not 80 microns. You can not with tin lead solder or SAC305 anyway. The upper limit is between 6 and 10 micro inches of gold. This is what ENIG plates to. If you solder to gre
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 25 21:28:38 EDT 1999 | Dave F
3%) concentrations of gold form brittle intermetallic compounds with the tin in your solder. Electroless gold is applied with an autocatalytic process that self-limits around 5 mils thickness. You're correct electrolytic gold is used for goldfinger
