Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 24 13:47:14 EDT 2004 | Indy
Hi, I am trying to assemble a LTCC component with Pd/Ag surface finish on to Sn/Pb/Ag solder and Sn/Ag/Cu solder. I am passing it through a reflow. I have observed poor wettability at the solder-pad joint. Does anyone have information regarding th
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 24 13:47:16 EDT 2004 | Indy
Hi, I am trying to assemble a LTCC component with Pd/Ag surface finish on to Sn/Pb/Ag solder and Sn/Ag/Cu solder. I am passing it through a reflow. I have observed poor wettability at the solder-pad joint. Does anyone have information regarding th
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 31 19:52:50 EST 2005 | davef
We agree with Russ that you're talking palladium instead of platinum. Your wetting problem likely is not the Pd-Ag surface layers, but the underlying metal or nickel to which you need to wet. Either a base metal is: * Contaminated and poorly wettabl
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 12 11:06:27 EST 2006 | muse95
No not really. They are inspected with gloves, but all PCB's are in our facility, no matter what the finish. They are stored in the same packaging material that they are shipped in. We haven't been using ImmAg for that long yet, so maybe we will se
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 12 17:35:34 EST 2006 | russ
We use immersion Silver for all of our lead free PCBs. They come in the "silver saver" paper you speak of and we have found that they will tarnish after 7 days in the open enviroment. Even with this tarnish we experienced no reflow problems. We are
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 16 12:48:12 EST 2006 | russ
The copper based part is it copper that you are soldering to or did you tell us what the base material was for the lead. Generally all leads are plated with something such as Tin/Lead, palladium over nickel, tin, etc... You cannot solder to bare co
Electronics Forum | Tue May 23 09:16:57 EDT 2006 | Steve
Had exactly the same type of issues. Tried everything from pre fluxing the pcb's , various ammendements to the oven profile and various pastes. Finally after a lot of help from multicore we settled on a paste by the code of cr39. A no clean flux wit
Electronics Forum | Tue May 23 09:36:11 EDT 2006 | Steve
Not being funny here but I understand exactly what you are saying and sounds exactly the same as we experienced. Seriously try a different paste. Give Tamura a ring and I am sure they will give you a sample. I don't have the exact part code but they
Electronics Forum | Tue May 23 09:50:37 EDT 2006 | flipit
They work well in silver conductive epoxy in hybrid applications. They are very poor in no clean applications. They don't work that well in OA solder paste either. Used them once in OA paste and in a nitrogen. They looked just fine. Solder to Pd
Electronics Forum | Wed May 24 16:57:23 EDT 2006 | Steve
The temperatures were measured on the board, ~1/2" away from the components in question. Admittedly the profile is on the bottom end of the Alpha recommendations. The profile was set up this way intentionally to avoid heat damage to other components
