Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 17 15:47:28 EST 2003 | davef
There is no documentation like you seek. The life of your part in storage is primarily a function of: * Quality of the part fabrication process. * Ingenuity and diligence you apply in protecting the parts from the environment. You need to: * Handle
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 08 18:06:35 EDT 2003 | davef
Antistat sprays are a waste of time and money. These sprays just soaps disolved in water that absorb moisture from the air. Your minimum requirements: Conductive floor mats and wrist straps that are properly grounded. From there, consider using
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 09 18:07:18 EDT 2003 | davef
We would be very wary of allowing 50 uinches, because this will likely result in reduced shelf life due to intermetallic growth. As a guesstimate, at least 10 uinches of that 50 uinches, and maybe more, is already intermetallic when you receive the b
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 28 17:34:27 EDT 2004 | Steve Stach
Hi Ralf, This discoloration may be re-oxidation. Fluxes are supposed to do three things (1) remove oxide, (2) promote wetting, and (3) protect surface from reoxidation. The solder paste possibly is not protecting from reoxidation. Best Regards, St
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 01 22:09:25 EDT 2004 | raylrhodes
We have an up coming job that has conductive ink deposits on the solder side of the PCB for contact switches and a zebra strip that connects to an LCD display. My question is... Do these need to be masked to protect them from the wave solder process
Electronics Forum | Wed May 11 10:40:10 EDT 2005 | pr
Are any of you shutting down all manufacturing machines when a thunderstorm approaches? My company is/has been doing this forever and tell me it's to protect the machines. I could see doing it to protect boards in the machines (except we have battery
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 04 10:33:34 EST 2006 | jdumont
Dow 3145 or 3140 is exactly what I was going to use on these connectors. Our requirement is to protect every solder joint in our product basically. This connector, being power input and signal out all in one is very important and needs to be protecte
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 27 12:42:51 EST 2006 | rohman23
We're looking into ways to better protect components adjacent to reworked ones with our Air-Vac. I've seen a few recommendations involving aluminum tape and other masking materials, but am looking for better recommendations. I noticed Alpha Metals
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 12 08:01:55 EDT 2008 | davef
There is no standard. On the web, you can find shelf life estimates for various types of solderability protection on bare boards. These estimates won't translate directly to the storage of assembled boards, because assembled boards [and the solderabi
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 20 12:41:41 EST 2009 | brycearkos
Has anyone attempted to, or successfully used a custom made (DIY) protective thermal enclosure for the Super M.O.L.E. gold profiler? We recently purchased a Bravo oven that came with everything for the ECD profiling system... except for the thermal
