Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 06 03:51:28 EST 2013 | cuperpeter
Hi rob, Thank you very much for your response. Profiling was made exactly on the pad, which showed dewetting, so the values are mentioned for this pad. PCB's is about a week old. It is possible that the surface of pads is already oxidized? I will t
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 05 09:57:45 EST 2013 | cuperpeter
Hello All, We have a problem with dewetting of solder paste. Problem is most visible on the pads without components (see attached pictures) and occurs randomly, 20% of PCB's. Pcb supplier sent us a cross-section of pads with thickness of Cu, Ni and
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 27 19:50:59 EDT 1999 | chris
Hi What is the possible cause of non-wetting of solder paste to the gold land pad. What we observed in the surface of the non-wet pad is an organic FM, and using FTIR we found out that it is a flux. It is possible that the cause of non-wetting is
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 17 03:03:29 EDT 2010 | grahamcooper22
Hi Gani, looking at the HASL icture and the poor wetting of the solder over the pads I would imagine that the HASL coating is very thin on the pads and in actual fact isn't 'solder' but is tin /copper intemetallic and this has poor solderability. It
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 14 02:46:17 EDT 2010 | grahamcooper22
Hi Gani, Looking at the pictures in the report it looks as if there is a thin coating of solder on the pcb pad....but it looks like the BGA sphere was barely in contact with the pad. This could be caused by insufficient solder paste on this pad...may
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 14 14:07:45 EDT 2010 | grahamcooper22
Hi Gani, HASL is normally very good for solderability providing there is a good consistent coating of HASL on the pcb pad. But it is not unusual to have a very thin coating of HASL on the pad and this is poor for solderability. You then have tin/copp
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 14 14:22:11 EDT 2010 | grahamcooper22
If the HASL was poor quality and very thin you would find this defect....but you would expect to see it on more pads also. Also, you'd expect to see your solder from your solder paste either dewetted on the pad or reflowed onto the BGA sphere making
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 22 06:42:03 EDT 2004 | Chris Lampron
Adam, What is the pad finish on the flex circuit? Is this the only component that you are having problems with? (on this Flex)If this is the only problem area on the flex (assuming there is more than one component)then that would lead me towards the
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 14 21:03:42 EDT 2010 | genesan
Hi Sir, The diameter of the aperature is 17mil and thickness 6mil and since we are using Solder Paste Inspection i believe that should have a good paste deposit on this pad.Let say if no good paste it will more create insufficient solder which X-RAY
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 13 22:32:41 EDT 2010 | genesan
Hi all good morning and need advice from expertise here. One of my customer complain that they have constantly issues with one of their product and ask us to do cross section.The report show there was “no wetting to the PCB copper pad” and cause the