Solder Balls and conformal coating

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What can cause solder balls to appear after conformal coatin... - Apr 05, 2019 by Kyloren

Never heard of such a thing. Are you sure the coating isn't ... - Apr 05, 2019 by Steve Thomas

We've never heard of seen of such a thing either. We tried ... - Apr 08, 2019 by Kyloren

Kyloren

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Solder Balls and conformal coating | 5 April, 2019

What can cause solder balls to appear after conformal coating? Using Dymax 9-20557, light curing for 1.5 mins. Can too much heat from light cure cause solder balls?

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Steve Thomas

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Solder Balls and conformal coating | 5 April, 2019

Never heard of such a thing. Are you sure the coating isn't just making the solder balls more prominent?

Where are the "new" solder balls appearing after coating?

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Kyloren

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Solder Balls and conformal coating | 8 April, 2019

We've never heard of seen of such a thing either. We tried a clean sample board and applied con coat. Same process through out and we saw nothing. After speaking with the original operators who was curing the boards he had left the boards much longer than required. So we experimented again and we noticed solder balls appearing and some components moving as well. This was with the PCB under the light for more than 5 mins.(which is unacceptable for this application) At least we were able to verify this was operator fault and corrected the issue.

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