Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 12 11:02:20 EST 2008 | patrickbruneel
Greg, I totally agree with you that machine settings are very important in wave soldering and soldering in general. I disagree that lead free alloys can produce wetting like in the attached picture (leaded alloy). Lead free alloys have a much higher
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 14 12:27:49 EDT 2004 | pjc
try Indium Corp's SMQ230. http://ncsmq230.indium.net/ Peak "on board" temps of 229C with good wetting have been obtained.
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 08 10:13:15 EDT 2005 | fctassembly
Hi Jason, Did the SAC paste wet other board finishes adequately? I have seen no issues to date with solderability of SN100CL HASL boards with our No Clean pastes. Regards, Bob
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 03 10:20:43 EDT 2005 | davef
Follow your component supplier recommendations. For instance: Xilinx says their lead-free alloy for their BGA spheres is SnAgCu, and liquidous is 217*C and they want you to peak at 230 - 235*C for good wetting according to their reflow guidelines.
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 26 09:49:53 EST 2007 | dyoungquist
You should have no problem using lead-free components with tin-lead solder. Is your reflow oven IR or hot air? If you are using an IR oven and the components are white or light colored, they may not be heating up enough for the solder to flow on
Electronics Forum | Thu May 22 14:44:10 EDT 2008 | samir
Does your top-side preheat NEED to be that high, and so high that you are exceeding the flux manufacturers' spec? If so, what is the reason? Top-side wetting? Are you measuring this temperature at the substrate or solder joint?
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 29 10:18:31 EDT 2008 | rrpowers
We saw this one time when we were trying to develop some lead-free product. It ended up being copper migration. Some of the pads had a brown discoloration and those that did would not wet very well. Your elemental analysis would have shown if ther
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 23 09:05:38 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Dr. Lee: In using environmental screening tests to assess solder joint reliability, what are the effects that make low temperature vibration effective in screening of poorly wetted solder connections? What temperature and vibration profile are effe
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 13 07:44:48 EST 2004 | Chris Cottreau
Upon inspection were seeing most if not all of these SOT 23 are not reflowed properly. The components just sit on top of the solder, this is creating insufficients, poor wetting, etc. There are about 25 SOTS per board, 2 boards per panel creating alo
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 28 22:35:32 EDT 2004 | davef
We can clean the blank out of LARGE BGA. [Cleaning small BGA is a whoooole nuther issue.] But before we get into that, what's the problem and its breadth? Why are you getting poor wetting? What's the story on the components, board, process materia
