Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 05 11:36:30 EST 2002 | William Guatemala
Have you check the flux gravity lately? If not, Check the flux gravity every 6 hours to make sure proper parameters are meet. Here is a list of things that may cause your solder ball problems; Excecive heat, defective fixtures, preheating temperature
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 11 14:36:42 EST 1999 | Evelyn York
Hey, has anybody experienced problems with solder balls falling off BGA's? I have not been able to identify a contaminant nor any physical problems that would cause this. On packages with 'good' adhesion I have not observed any intermetallic form
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 04 09:24:52 EST 2002 | jseagle
I have found that preheating the solder pallets prior to use helps cut down on the solder balling. Also, we do not cool the pallets between passes and we use a spray fluxer because a hot pallet will knock down the head on a foam fluxer. We use WS f
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 02 16:01:15 EST 2002 | russ
If you can, attach athermocouple to the locations where you are getting solder balls. A previous product I had showed the same thing and we found that we had inadequate preheat leaving the liquid flux to splatter when it hit the wave. It could aslo
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 02 16:19:11 EST 2002 | slthomas
Unfortunately it's nc or we'd be worrying about this on the fly. Non-contact is defintely and issue....this is an 18"x9" board with 1500 bottom side SMT parts that are scattered among the through-hole and vice-versa. We're currently using 7 hold-
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 02 12:52:40 EST 2002 | slthomas
We're trying a selective soldering pallet for the first time with mixed reviews. Are solder balls a prevalent problem with this process? Most of them seem to correspond with pallet wall locations....is it too much turbulence from the rotary chip wav
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 11 17:09:27 EST 2000 | Michael Parker
Get a profiler for your oven. To say "we are not sure" and "we think it might..." shows you are running with a WAG (Wild Ass Guess). Not a good place to be if you intend to produce anything reliable, with quality. Run your profile and verify that yo
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 02 13:16:31 EST 2002 | kenBliss
Hi Steve The people who will have the answer is the experts at EMC Global Technologies. They know their stuff, they are the leader in the solder pallet industry. They design and build them to work right. http://www.emcgti.com for contact info. Hop
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 02 18:01:12 EST 2002 | GSW
Hi, Try to check if there is water absorbed in the flux or the humidity around the wave area. possibly plating on barrels that might be damaged?
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 03 15:26:07 EST 2002 | GSW
This might be a trival mundane suggestion but try to use non conductive plate to hold components. Probably even made of the pallet material. I am sure your pallet fabricator will have tons of scrap and he can help you find one. T