Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 09 15:46:34 EDT 2006 | samir
I say: �Wave flux needs to be heated to certain activation temps which won't be repeatedly achieved with a manual soldering process. Plus, you won't burn off any residual activator as you would if the board were immersed in a solder bath.� Muse say
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 08 16:03:52 EDT 2006 | jbrower
On Saturday the 3rd, I offloaded nearly 1200 pounds of solder from my Electrovert, did the tin purge and loaded nearly 1200 pounds of sn100c back into my solder pot. It was a hell of a job, but we got it done in 8 hours. We've been running with this
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 23 10:48:44 EDT 2006 | Rob
Hi Paul, Can't find any info on Cobalt 995,but we do have experience of 99/0.7/0.3 +0.02% Cobalt wire - flows better than any leadfree wire we've come across & the cobalt is supposed to improve tip life. Bit smokey though, but with extraction that'
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 27 08:38:03 EDT 2006 | cuculi54986@yahoo.com
I tried some SN100C from AIM... On only one array. It flowed well on the chips but did not like the finish on the SOT23's on the board. I did not have enough arrays to mess around, so we switched it over to SAC305 and had no issues. I'm guessing w
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 30 20:39:52 EDT 2006 | johnwnz
Grant, Haven't doen any work with the SN100C paste, the problem I guess is yoru subject to the suppliers flux base so if that is poor then the alloy may not perform as well as it could. We've found Avantec to be pretty good at SMT but have got SN100C
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 13 13:40:20 EDT 2006 | Bob R.
Wow, good luck. None of my test results would be helpful since we use IPC-B-24 test boards as received from our board suppliers so we have a clear understanding of what we're shipping customers, not necessarily paste performance alone. We'll only cl
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 09 05:18:07 EDT 2006 | Rob
Hi Shawn, that you're baking the components makes me think that they are either old, or have been sitting around for a while (or none of the above & you are really dilligent!) Whilst baking will sort out the MSD issues (such as popcorning) it will
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 13 17:16:44 EDT 2006 | slthomas
"I believe I was the one who stated in an old post that prying the leads is rediculous." I have been down this road as well. The prez of my previous employer decided that because he could pry .012" leads off the pads with a screwdriver that we had a
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 09 11:18:25 EDT 2006 | kehoem@bellsouth.net
Question; Do you think it's possible that your customer has got his units mixed up & actually means 0.3 micro inches of gold over 0.5 micro inches of Nickel? That is what I said but their vendor says they are building to print which says 80 uM and i
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 09 12:51:52 EDT 2006 | flipit
You can not solder to 30 micro inches of gold over nickel and certainly not 80 microns. You can not with tin lead solder or SAC305 anyway. The upper limit is between 6 and 10 micro inches of gold. This is what ENIG plates to. If you solder to gre
