Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 07 11:05:35 EDT 2019 | teejsd
Went thru wave solder, yes
Electronics Forum | Tue May 20 03:21:05 EDT 2008 | grayman
I sell wave solder optimizer in Philippines. I have sold many of this optimizer system. It cost less than US$10K. Most of my customer is happy with the performance except for some issues from customers like LCD not yet colored, uses RS232, upgrades
Electronics Forum | Tue May 03 21:14:19 EDT 2011 | davef
Can we talk some to better understand the scope and breadth of the problem? * From your picture, it looks as if the problem shows-up on some pads, but not others. Is this accurate? * Is this lot related? * Is this related to a few items from a lot? *
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 31 12:24:24 EST 2000 | Dave F
Robert: Several points: 1 Dross is a mixture of various things with no "fixed" composition: � The obvious things are metal oxides mixed with metal and this can vary in color with temperature and composition - remember some intermetallic oxides form
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 17 21:44:14 EST 2000 | sosina_outry
Daren: suggestion from a friend of mine 1. Is residue on the top or bottom of the board? If on the bottom, then you might need to do solder dedross. if on the top, you might need to check 1. after spray flux, check for any excess flux on the top of
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 22 16:42:47 EST 2006 | Mark Beesley
Hello John, There are some coatings for aluminum to eliminate solder drag out. The do not work with all fluxes it is called hardcoat anodized it is black or geen in color. Unless you have faily high volumn the hard coat cost can be as high as titan
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 30 11:31:32 EST 2016 | horchak
First profilers are expensive and you can use temperature dots for setting up a wave. You stick them to the top side of the board and they change color based on temp. Top side temp should be around 250f or 125c when it hits the fountain. If you spra
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 22 12:44:28 EDT 2006 | russ
Cannot be done, no way to solder the heat pad underneath center. P.S. Rob also spells color wrong!!! must have been a real bad school!! How does the wave master do it? Russ
Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 22 13:24:49 EDT 2014 | davef
I don't know. We never had craziness like this before lead-free. You should have the yellowish-metal analyzed to be sure. Guessing: You're seeing this color on the terminations of components, not on the bulk of the SnX solder connection. If that's
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 19 11:01:42 EST 1999 | Dave F
| Hi folks, | | I am looking for inputs on a long-standing problem encountered in our shop: Bottom-side parts (passives) falling off in the Wave...where the only remnants of the part is a flattened glue dot of proper diameter and volume, and somet
