Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 29 13:43:27 EDT 2012 | icin
Thanks to all of you that have replied and those that may eventually reply. We are feeling better now that you experts with many years of experience have not indicated that this is as common as ESD or Moisture Sensitivity Awareness to the point that
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 27 12:51:32 EDT 2012 | cobham1
I have run 0.031 boards. One of the things you may want to look at is the speed of the oven. With 14 zones you may be going to slow with the board which could be the reason your boards are starting to bow. You might also think about adding stiffners
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 28 08:28:30 EDT 2012 | rgduval
We agree with all of the previous comments, and would add the following: Warpage is generally caused by excess moisture in the raw boards. Have you tried baking the boards prior to assembly? We had this issue on a simple 4-layer board, and found t
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 27 12:52:07 EDT 2012 | rway
Well, I rarely ever start new threads on this forum, and here I've done it twice in one day. I am very pleased to have a forum such as this to seek help and lean on others experiences in the time of need. Thank you in advance. I've searched extens
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
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 30 13:02:37 EDT 2012 | rway
This may have been asked, but what ESD protection does your facility already have? With proper techniques and equipment, this should be a non-issue. As long as folks aren't using the pcb's to comb through their hair, you don't have to worry about i
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 30 13:26:40 EDT 2012 | joeherz
Appreciate all the replies. We have a good system in place with ESD tile floor, grounded systems/benches/etc and heel and wrist strap usage and monitoring. Good training program as well. We've recently upgraded to the 2007 version of the ANSI 20.2
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 30 18:51:39 EDT 2012 | kahrpr
My first question is how many failures have you seen due to hair length I will bet zero. So upsetting your employees for something that will not reduce your failure rate by one board is pointless. However someone mentioned hair in the process that i
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 30 22:44:05 EDT 2012 | rway
I'm not saying that any unexplained failure is caused by ESD and I certainly am not promoting fear. I sleep very well at night (except after eating Mexican food, which can cause discharges as well). What I am saying is that ESD is a real threat and
