Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 05 11:36:30 EST 2002 | William Guatemala
Have you check the flux gravity lately? If not, Check the flux gravity every 6 hours to make sure proper parameters are meet. Here is a list of things that may cause your solder ball problems; Excecive heat, defective fixtures, preheating temperature
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 17 03:59:52 EDT 2012 | stivais
Hi guys, We have an interesting case we haven't seen before (see the picture below) http://postimage.org/image/lu2f4ae55/ Solder balls form on unpopulated pads after reflow. 1. Reflow profile is fine. 2. Stencil thickness / paste volume is also f
Electronics Forum | Mon May 18 22:26:57 EDT 1998 | Steve Gregory
...Great minds think alike, huh? (GRIN) -Steve Gregory-
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 17 05:06:04 EDT 2012 | benreben
Hi, maybe solderability of PCB...
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 18 12:37:21 EDT 2012 | mark25y2001
msg - delete because picture posted not viewed.
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 28 10:09:50 EST 2000 | mike d
Istvan, One possible reason for this is that you are using a water soluble flux in your wave solder machine. If you are and the boards are not pre heated long enough, the water in the flux does not evaporate before hitting the wave. When the water
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 02 16:01:15 EST 2002 | russ
If you can, attach athermocouple to the locations where you are getting solder balls. A previous product I had showed the same thing and we found that we had inadequate preheat leaving the liquid flux to splatter when it hit the wave. It could aslo
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 04 09:24:52 EST 2002 | jseagle
I have found that preheating the solder pallets prior to use helps cut down on the solder balling. Also, we do not cool the pallets between passes and we use a spray fluxer because a hot pallet will knock down the head on a foam fluxer. We use WS f
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 11 09:35:15 EDT 2004 | loz
Last time I experienced this, one of the operators had increased the wave height. Reverted it back to the original setting and no more balls. Under cured solder resist again? Mr Greg? Not doubting your summation but PWB vendors are too blame again?
Electronics Forum | Tue May 19 12:54:55 EDT 1998 | Richard Jackson
| We had a similar problem. But whenever the solder came from the screen printer the solder would wet to the gold fingers, with the help of residual flux. But the problem is balls, that I assume are not wetted to the gold fingers but instead are jus
