Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 03 11:31:43 EDT 1998 | Ben Salisbury
| I am in need of possible causes and solutions to capacitors that are failing in the field. | Are there issues in our process that need to be | checked? | Some people said the problems are due to improper | storage. Others say it is thermal stre
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 27 17:58:07 EDT 1998 | Ben Salisbury
| | Damn Wayne, | | | If I knew as much as you, Justin, Steve, his dad, and others know, or knew, I'd be happy to be the UGLY. The plus of a forum like this is it keeps us on our toes and keeps our brain cells alive or constantly searching for replac
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 27 07:29:29 EDT 1998 | ashok dhawan
| This would take quite a few programing hours, but An option that might be considered to prevent Fake addresses. | Is to make the forum Restricted access to only Verified users...i.e. username and password. Email ferified by a send and reply from th
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 28 16:07:58 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| Not everyone wants or is even allowed to share their address with the general public. I have friends who can't come to a forum like this for that very reason. You force everyone to leave an email so this was to be expected, wasn't it? And stuff lik
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 22 10:25:11 EDT 1998 | Ben Salisbury
| We are using PCBs of CEM3 Material with bare copper fiducials. The whole | board is of bare copper with a lacquer coating (Coats brother S2974). | The fiducials are of 1 mm diameter bare copper. we use Panasert MV2F as | well as Fuji CP4-3. In bo
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 21 14:38:00 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| It's been one hell of a week.... | From personal experience, what are the most common causes for embrittlement of the solder joint? I just need to make sure I've got all my bases covered. | thanks | -Ben Right on. Yago sangria. Chili conceso. That'
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 26 00:16:08 EDT 1998 | Jeff Sanchez
| | It's been one hell of a week.... | | From personal experience, what are the most common causes for embrittlement of the solder joint? I just need to make sure I've got all my bases covered. | | thanks | | -Ben | Right on. Yago sangria. Chili conc
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 18 16:10:40 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| Question: | If a PCB and the lands of a part both had electroless plating, would there be a higher tendancy for intermetallics to form in and on the solderjoint...versus just the PCB or Just the part being plated? | I'm currently running into this
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 21 13:43:13 EDT 1998 | Ben Salisbury
| Hello everyone, | I am currently running a gold plated SMT board and am experiencing tiny solder balls between the pads and the masking between the 20 mil pitch devices. I'm looking at these boards with a 60x microscope. IPC-610 say's any visible s
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 24 13:17:55 EDT 1998 | Ben Salisbury
| Does anyone out there know of anyone renting equipment to record video of reflow actions? I am looking for a hi-temp camera to run behind boards in my ovens to record what's happening in there. We have some crazy stuff going on with some boards. He