Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 01 10:19:22 EST 2002 | cyber_wolf
Whoa! I beg to differ my friend. The cure profile is VERY critical in Adhesive curing, especially if your are screen printing. When you screen print adhesive you are leaving it exposed to the atmosphere for a period of time. SMT adhesive by nature i
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 10 11:08:39 EST 2005 | mrgman9999
We are having a problem with popcorning of a plastic BGA that has been under careful humidity control. We have had problems in the past and some have been related to too much trapped internal solvents from the die attach epoxy. We did a life time b
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 04 10:59:02 EST 2014 | rrosera
HI, I work for a company in New England and recently had a unusually large number of boards fail after replacing a BGA on them. We use a AirVac DRS25 to remove and replace the BGA witch uses local forced hot air. We usually have at least a 90% s
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 10 09:52:22 EST 1999 | justin medernach
| We are starting up an SMT line with a printer and convection oven.... The area we are considering for the printer is totally uncontrolled for humidity, temperature and even cleanliness. | | We are working on the filters to keep particulates down,
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 03:06:35 EST 2000 | Sal
guys Using a well estrablished water soluble solder paste, but having problems with tack time. Data sheet recommend a couple of hours but we are seeing problems after about 15 minutes with 0402/0603 componenets bouncing off. The printer environment
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 15 08:34:54 EDT 1999 | Mark Quealy
I use a Transition Automation Semi- Automatic stencil printer with laser cut frameless stencils. My solder paste is an SN63/PB37 RMA 291. I do not operate with in a controlled humidity enviroment. The room temp generally runs around 70 deg's but humi
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 06 09:46:28 EDT 2002 | davef
Most paste supplier recommendations seem to work fine in the locale of the printer. Search the fine SMTnet Archives for recommendations on the range of control for temperature and humidity in a assembly shop.
Electronics Forum | Tue May 16 20:59:46 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Ashok: Haven't unloaded that ESD Coordinator job yet have you? Smocks: Don't work, they're hot, and no one likes them, but they put up with them (sort of). Now if they knew they didn't work, all the customer PR in the world wouldn't help. The bi
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 09 02:24:49 EST 2005 | laxman
Hi Dave, Normally in our country (India) during rainy season the temperature will be 25to 30 �C and RH of 50 to 60%. The reason behind this humidity issue is that recently we have moved to our new facility with centralised air conditioner with Chill
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 20 21:02:46 EST 2000 | Michael Psrker
First question I have for you is: Are you assuming that standard precautions are in place at your facility to minimize moisture content i.e. air- deionizers, vacuum sealed packaging, humidity control in storage and manufacturing? You do not mention
