Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 10 18:40:00 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| I am looking for the Industry standards on vias. Are they required to be plated with solder or is copper plating enough? What about reliabilty with either one? Also, if tenting the via is required should it be copper plated or solder plated over
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 08 15:01:02 EDT 1998 | D.Lange
| I work QA at an OEM in Alberta, Canada. I saw earlier posts on the smtnet regarding PCB haloing criteria. I am currently in a dispute with my PCB vendor over the acceptability of haloing (delamination) around plated through holes and vias on a lot
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 08 15:00:08 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| I work QA at an OEM in Alberta, Canada. I saw earlier posts on the smtnet regarding PCB haloing criteria. I am currently in a dispute with my PCB vendor over the acceptability of haloing (delamination) around plated through holes and vias on a lot
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 03 07:02:25 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| Does anybody know if a contraption exists that will minimize a PCB's tendency to become slightly bent after reflow? We have a new product that we're planning to assemble in a couple of months. The board is 9.7" by 13.4" and it is imperitive that
Electronics Forum | Wed May 27 21:05:30 EDT 1998 | Steve Gregory
Hey yooze guys! Enough of the jokes between you and Earl (GRIN), let's get back to the topic...well, okay... you can tell a few more...(but good ones, 'kay?) Anyhoo...I'm not sure if ya'll are on the IPC Technet list or not, I've not seen any posts f
Electronics Forum | Tue May 19 17:49:47 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | Earl, | | | I admit that I missed your article since I seemed to have let my subscription to Circuit Fabrication Magazine expire. I am interested in your experience in this area. Is there a way to get a copy of your paper? Could you maybe po
Electronics Forum | Fri May 15 18:26:06 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | Hello. | | 1 Could anyone tell me the range of temperature | | to solder MI components? The process eng is using 400~500 | | degrees Celcius!! For standard 0805/0603 chips & TH components & | | also to touch up on ICs. What
Electronics Forum | Fri May 08 18:39:17 EDT 1998 | Steve Gregory
| | As usual, we are faced with too many components and not enough board on a new design. Does anyone have experience wavesoldering .025" pitch TSOPs on the bottom side? | | Any advice is appreciated. | | Greg Hi there Greg! First, I just gotta
Electronics Forum | Wed May 06 11:16:18 EDT 1998 | john
| | Does anyone have info on the rotary chip wave(compare/contrast to z wave.....)? | John, | In my humble opinion, rotary chip waves are the best thing since forced convection. Great coverage; never clog. And here's a really cool perk: the rotary
Electronics Forum | Mon May 04 21:54:14 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| I've never seen this before. Today, I got this tombstoning on Tantalum Capacitors (Okay, I saw that before) | Here's the part that seems weird to me: | -They didn't tombstone onto a termination - they went onto their sides! That's right, both ter
