Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 08 10:10:41 EST 1999 | John Thorup
Hi Dave I think you just provided the key to understanding the problem. By your description you are talking about a CBGA (ceramic). These typically have balls composed of 10/90 Sn/Pb which melts at a higher temperature than the 62/36/2 Sn/Pb/Ag (or
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 13 19:47:05 EDT 2004 | davef
Glue has different mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties than solder. That's why all these very nice no-lead people are furiously trying to gin-up some wacky solder alloy, rather than using glue. Among the papers in the SMTA Knowledge base
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 26 19:32:03 EDT 1999 | Steve Gregory
| Can anyone give me the virtues of SMT package castellations vs. no castellations with particular reference to the ruggedness and reliability of the solder joints? Any references or studies that you can point me to? Also, although I'm in favor of
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 12 03:58:10 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| What are the factors that go into determining PCB Board temperature requirements for the Wavesolder process? Most of the recipes I've seen call for preheating the PCB to around 230F - 250F. This temp is about 210F - 230F below the typical solder te
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 26 17:01:52 EDT 2001 | davef
We process no Teflon boards. Companies, such as Rogers and Taconic, make laminates of Polytetrafluoroethylene [PTFE] er �Teflon�. Common �Teflon� laminates are: * Woven glass / PTFE * Random microfiber glass / PTFE * Ceramic / PTFE * Woven glass /
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 13 22:48:11 EDT 2004 | Ken
I assumed the balls were tin/silver 221C or tin/silver/copper 218C liquiduous....but, this is obviously not the case. It looks like you balls are almost pure tin (mp=238C) You are correct. This is exactly the same as using 10/90 high temp balls o
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 12 18:11:03 EDT 2001 | davef
First, what on the area array package are you analyzing � * Package cracking? * Cracked solder balls? * Er, what? Second, most failure analysis discussions consider dye penetration to be a non-destructive test, but then again most failure analysis
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 29 16:03:57 EDT 1999 | Dave F
snip | John and Dave, | | Again, I don't work with larger chip devices with this issue. The company I now work with developed a strategy, based on considerable research (as others of us did in the past), to do things like placing 0603's on 0402 pad
Electronics Forum | Sun Aug 08 04:36:02 EDT 1999 | Brian
Dave Frankly, I think you may be barking up the wrong tree. Like DaveF, I suggest that the process would be horrendously expensive with masking and so on. The $64,000 question is whether what you propose will serve any useful purpose. I venture to
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 30 06:28:12 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| | snip | | | John and Dave, | | | | Again, I don't work with larger chip devices with this issue. The company I now work with developed a strategy, based on considerable research (as others of us did in the past), to do things like placing 0603'
