Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 24 12:45:16 EDT 2006 | CKH
Hi Folk, recently, i have found about 5% of the PCBA failed because of the faulty 10uF Cermanic Chip - Short Circuit. Will this Ceramic Chip cause during the SMT Process (e.g Temperature), Functional Testing or from it Original incoming Capacitor (M
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 26 16:44:18 EDT 2006 | df
All, We have a board that has failed at burn in. There is a 672 BGA on the board. When the test guy presses down on the BGA the board will pass ! What am I looking at here? Board finish is ENIG - could this be black pad / what should I do to diagn
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 04 13:58:38 EDT 2006 | cw
hi Dave.F and All, I need to reflow SCA solder balls on Sn/Pb paste, i get a pretty OK solder wetting and collapse apperance, however, i am seeing voids everywhere, some of them is greater than 25-30%, which has exceeded IPC standard. Please advise.
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 30 09:24:21 EST 2006 | ronalds
I have some problems in sufficient preheating the pcb's. They splatter on the mainwave, causing solderballing. Less flux causes problems with the fill of the through- holes. We use a Delta Wave with 3 preheat zones, the first two are calrods the thi
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 31 19:41:38 EST 2006 | Dhanish
Can someone advise if there is any risk if we use lead-free alloy wire during rework for Leaded Process?The reason for this proposal is to only have one type of solder wire being used in the line.This will eliminate any possibility of leaded wire bei
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 07 22:05:23 EST 2006 | Jerry Butters
Which fixture material is LEAST LIKELY to warp? Please advise. We used ta have a Wave Optimizer but the corpulent engineer before me broke it before he left the company. Anywho, my next project is to design a wave fixture pallet which will work
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 13 09:22:10 EST 2006 | aj
Hi all, Should we need to order the Higher TG to run boards safely thru a RoHS Process (reflow only)? We had an issue with the previous batch delaminating and were advised by supplier that we should have stated the higher TG rating even though the p
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 08 03:16:12 EST 2007 | oswald5087
hi' i need advise on immersion gold PCb shelf life. 1) what is the issue shelf life or expire for Immersion gold PCB? 2) How long we can keep the PCB? (with vacuum seal and without vacuum seal) 2) iF PCB expire, can we bake the immersion PCB? what t
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 25 04:11:09 EST 2007 | aj
Tricky stuff. I would expect to hit between 210-215 peak temp on Lead process. What sort of profile are you using? I would imagine a good soak zone would be critical- I have never had BGAs on bottomside so cant really advise any further,i will be in
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 16 07:22:50 EDT 2007 | cyber_wolf
I am not sure what the smallest aperture is that I have. I can tell you that I remember the area and aspect ratio (for apertures) being quite a bit lower than standard on quite a few stencils. We only order Invar on stencils that fall below ratio..