Electronics Forum | Thu May 02 09:33:30 EDT 2013 | 15009
Looking for advice on soldering lead free paste to a board with very heavy gold plating. I have learned from the Customer that this is HARD GOLD and that it is 10-20 Micro Inches Hard Gold over 100 Micro inches of Nickel. When we reflowed the solde
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 06 18:05:57 EDT 2005 | Dave
lead free transition. want to use lead free parts w/ lead solder.. any issues I should be aware of???
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 06 18:11:37 EDT 2005 | russ
Please search the archives as this has been discussed on many occasions. Everything should be fine except for BGAs which will require a higher temp of 235C at the peak in reflow.
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 22 01:39:06 EST 2010 | boardhouse
Hi Johan, As a Asian board supplier - I would not recommend using Lead free hasl on any product that has BGA, you would be just looking for issues, flatness being the main. I agree with one of the other replies - Your purchasing dept. should not be
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 04 10:37:48 EST 2011 | johanhuizing
Hi Mike, We only are using ENIG not hard gold, we are using edge contacts but the connectors will only be removed if the product is being replaced, normal life time for the equipment where the electronics is build-in is 15 years. Also the electronic
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 21 04:09:49 EST 2010 | johanhuizing
0.5 and 0.4 mm pitch, we think we could get problems with the solderpaste stencil. Also some board have keypads and then we have do do partial gold and I think that will not reduce the costs
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 06 17:33:07 EST 2011 | boardhouse
Hi Johan, Sounds like you have already gone over your product very well to reduce product cost. Switching away from Deep gold Tabs & carbon ink Key pads can save quite a bit. The only other thing to suggest would be material - Moving away from Isol
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 22 15:03:12 EDT 2005 | patrickbruneel
The only thing ammonia can do is tarnish copper and make it more difficult to solder. And the higher temp in lead-free will discolor the latex (giving it a sticky surface), but the functionality of the mask will be intact. There should be greater co
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 15 21:12:45 EST 2005 | Ronald
As a QA guy, I cannot find a portable equipment to check lead free solder in the container during processing.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 22 14:14:42 EDT 2005 | Steve
Tin/Lead we have had no problem in masking off areas on a pcb during wave soldering. Lead Free alloys, Nickel Silver Copper would there be any compatability issues with a Peelable latex solder mask containing Ammonia. Really hot need to know.
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