Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 14 08:21:13 EST 2009 | davef
We believe that it's perfectly resonable for you to define the cleanliness that you require. We recommend that you leave it at that and not define the process or materials that your supplier use in meeting that cleanliness level. Start with a dirty
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 13 16:13:20 EST 2009 | jax
Many shops require levels for typical component packages on FR-4 or a like substrate to be 2, 9, 15, 1 and 10 mg/in2 for fluoride, chloride, bromide, nitrate, and sulfate respectively. These levels can change for Medical or Automotive.
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 12 11:57:59 EST 2009 | jmiller
i have searched the forum for hours. read all the threads that deals with cleanliness and ionic testing. (http://www.smtnet.com/forums/Index.cfm?CFApp=1&Message_ID=40295) (http://www.smtnet.com/forums/Index.cfm?CFApp=1&Message_ID=22603) (http://www.
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 03 20:46:32 EDT 2007 | Mike Konrad
We manufacture similar equipment. I would recommend that most of the testing be performed in an automatic shut-off mode. There are potential issues with both methods, automatic shut-off and fixed time tests. In an automatic shut-off mode, the cl
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 17 11:25:25 EST 2004 | Haran
Are you looking for Ionic Contamination Test?
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 31 12:37:39 EDT 2009 | rocko
Hi All, As a result of equipment damage I have a problem with a cleanliness of printed circuit assemblies. One whole production batch was polluted by ionic residues because a large amount of hard water had been penetrated in the water-supply system
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 02 16:41:44 EDT 2009 | pcbcleaning
Advanced Cleaning Solutions is a Johnstown, PA based electronic manufacturing service provider (EMS) with more than 3,500 square feet of ESD safe facilities. Our services include precision PCB cleaning and ionic cleanliness testing/verification usin
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 03 17:13:33 EDT 2007 | kmorris
Just wanted to do a poll to see how others are determining their test time for Ionic testing. Test Method IPC-TM-650 number 2.3.25, section 5.3.3, says "The test time should be in accordance with the monitoring plan criteria (set time or auto-shutof
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 27 22:16:03 EDT 2012 | ilanhovan
Hi, my supplier is using the same Aqueous machine to clean the boards for 2 different customers. My product uses the chemistry of leaded clean flux meanwhile the other product uses the chemistry of lead free with no clean flux, however that product r
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 31 13:51:33 EDT 2012 | joeherz
First off - There should be no issue with washing your OA/water soluble boards with the other customer's no clean units provided that the recipe being used has been validated to effectively clean each product. If your supplier is using a batch syste