Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 13 07:57:15 EDT 2004 | Grant
Hi, We have been offered some lead free BGA parts in place of normal lead solder BGA parts in our process, and because we can get them faster it would be a good option. However does anyone know if we can use them as normal. I assume the balls won't
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 19 09:53:07 EDT 2004 | Mighty C
Good Morning Rush Fan, We have a Metcal VPI 1000. We are very happy with the system. The price is competitive, software is easy to use and the picture quality is good. They have a great lighting scheme that illuminates under a BGA extremely well. Th
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 04 20:06:24 EDT 2004 | C.W
Customer returned a brd claim that one of the FPGA is having "cold solder joint". I inspected the the BGA location with X-ray and Ersascope, balls' shape look fine, voids are not detected, perimeter joints show shinny and smooth appearance, i have se
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 14 11:26:18 EDT 2004 | Simon UK
Hi All, Ok, now i have hit a brick wall with our design department and due to limited space on our standard sized boards we are going down the Double-Sided route. We have a 8 zone (4 Top/Bottom) Quad ZCR Convection (Ok! you can stop laughing!) and
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 14 06:41:43 EST 2004 | clampron
Good Morning Everyone, I had a question regarding the use of a lead free BGA in a leaded process. All of the information I have gathered from various seminars state that this is OK. It will process more like a column grid array where the 63/37 will
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 10 11:40:25 EST 2005 | Carol
Hello All, Can somebody direct me to a facility or school or even a business that can offer an x-ray course for Class 3 electronic circuit board population interpretation, as in BGA ball acceptance, connector solderability fill acceptance etc.? Some
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 26 08:20:46 EDT 2005 | Bob R.
All you can do is try it. I did a literature search last year on causes of BGA voiding and came up with a pretty long list, sometimes contradictory. I also discussed it with several paste suppliers. What I came away with is that what aggravates voi
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 05 15:42:26 EST 2006 | samir
Grant, The strength of the joint in a CCGA is the column for one...it's more ductile, made out of 90% Pb, and it's meant to compensate for the massive CTE mismatches between the ceramic and the board (ie the columns flex to relieve stress from the e
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 03 03:01:35 EST 2006 | Frank
The 740 and 760 basically have the same specs as far as component ranges: 0402-50mm components. The 760 is a bit more accurate and the vision system is better. The 740 was designed when BGA weren't really around and so it can barely vision center b
Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 14 06:38:04 EST 2006 | DannyJ
Hi Ken, Good question, and I did search for what you are asking, but unable to find anything conclusive about using tacky flux vs. solder. In reliability, it depends on which section of the process you are talking about. Mainly (and there are sev
