Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 05 18:59:53 EDT 2001 | Dan Steffler
I have had an issue where solder has contaminated gold plated pads (fingers) where it is not acceptable. The pads must remain perfectly coplaniar for a LCD zebra strip to lay accross them. Does anyone know of a way to remove the marriage level of s
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 06 03:54:57 EST 1999 | Chris May
Hi Russ, I have a similar situation. I have been told that this can be caused by the nickel, over which the gold is plated, can result in suspect joints, embrittlement etc. Some joints can even be weak and broken without much force on some of my boa
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 20 18:15:02 EDT 2002 | davef
Haaaaa!!!! Soldering to plastic!!!! An apt analogy!!! I like to compare it to soldering to dirt. Some thing. In fact, you are soldering on nickel, when soldering on many things. It�s just that the gold, er Pd, flash enables the wetting mechanism
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 27 09:09:36 EST 2006 | davef
Silver on your copper or brass part is a solderability protection. The silver diffuses into the solder and you solder to the base metal, either the copper or brass in your case. Soldering to copper is well known. The issues are soldering to brass
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 13 21:02:19 EDT 2007 | Sam
Anyone experience using SnPb wire to gold plated ICs? I have tried to solder the SnPb wire to the gold plated ICs lead, but the surface finishing is dull. Can anyone explain that to me? Why it is not shinny surface? Any recommendation?
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 09 06:28:03 EST 2015 | recard
Hi guys, we have a problem and I hope something can give nme some new information. We have big solderability problems with a gold plated board. We changed the paste already, but there is no improvement. Could the Vapor phase Technology cause the p
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 21 22:10:07 EDT 2003 | adlsmt
Well, for some reason the board house will pay for the boards but has some issue with paying for the parts on them. Why am I not supprised? Perhaps I have mis-diagnosed the problem. We have found two different board p/n's with the same type of defec
Electronics Forum | Sat Apr 23 19:31:25 EDT 2005 | molosse21
Hi, Is there a solder paste alloy espacially done to solder components on a pcb gold plated ??? I am using the AIM 297DX SN63/PB37 no clean and i had a comments from my customer telling me that i am not using the right alloy. Personally i never he
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 16 09:12:23 EDT 2007 | davef
Standard for appearance: J-STD-001 and IPC-A-610 committees eliminated the requirement that solder connections be "bright and shiny". Certain solderability protections; such as Au, NiPd, NiPdAu; can affect the surface texture of a solder connection,
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 11 13:51:19 EST 2015 | duchoang
Could you give us more details. Picture, profile, solder paste ...?