Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 14 15:14:31 EDT 2008 | samir
Dean, thanks for schooling me on this. I talked to an industry collegue whom I met at APEX, and it was he who had told me of the IAg "rework issue." Basically, he told me that they had field failures on QFPs that were a direct result of trying to "
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 27 10:04:51 EDT 2009 | ericthered
We have been having problems with proper wetting when running mainly lead free but also leaded solder in our Ersa Hotflow 3. Solder either often looks grainy or doesn't flow over the whole pad. This is generally the case when my profile is 170 firs
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 02 11:23:08 EDT 2009 | floydf
Does anyone out there have experience soldering > with Pb solder (Sn 63 or Sn 62) to SAC 305 coated > PCB lands (about 50um) or Sn-Cu plated lands > (about 10um). I know soldering Pb free (Sac based > soler) to Pb/Sn coated lands is a no-no, but
Electronics Forum | Fri May 22 12:42:43 EDT 2015 | deanm
Sr. Tech, you are right in that there is no verification of the profile. We are a Class 3 high mix OEM. We have visual inspection after SMT. We have not seen problems with wetting, grainy solder, cold solder, charred boards, etc. that would indicate
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 04 12:42:04 EST 2019 | dunks
We currently use Kester's ep256 as well and it seems to be a bit more grainy than one would expect from lead, especially if the temperature is too low. That paste says it's specialty is being robust over a wide range of profiles and stencil conditio
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 14 07:55:07 EST 2000 | Pat Pepper
Hi Wolfgang, Thanks for the response. We had a similar situation to yours with some white tin samples that sat around for about eight months. Samples soldered right after they arrived soldered better than the ones we soldered eight months down the
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 03 23:40:26 EST 1999 | Chris G.
| Does anyone know if I will have problems soldering surface mount components to an all hard gold plated PC board. We want to use hard gold similar to gold used for edge fingers because our customer is concerned about wear and conductivity of connect
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 02 08:37:32 EST 1999 | Chris G.
| Hello Everybody: | | I am in urgent need of some information regarding the reflow profile for a flip chip wafer. Would the reflow conditions along with the flux used affect the appearence of the solder joints. | | We are witnessing dull solder j
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 21 13:43:13 EDT 1998 | Ben Salisbury
| Hello everyone, | I am currently running a gold plated SMT board and am experiencing tiny solder balls between the pads and the masking between the 20 mil pitch devices. I'm looking at these boards with a 60x microscope. IPC-610 say's any visible s
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 14 09:38:07 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| We are having some difficulty soldering a 240 pin Altera device. We use Alpha WS-609, a very generic profile for that solder paste, and a 6 mil stencil with laser cut apertures (1:1 ratio). This is a 20 mil pitch device (aperture size is 10 mils X
