Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 23 08:43:32 EDT 2008 | davef
Ugh, there are more reasons that immersion silver [IAg] to go yellowish than pigs at the county fair. That aside, sulphur is one of the reasons, as you say. The sulphur can be from a variety of sources, such as: * Pollution in the air * Ill advised p
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 07 09:53:12 EDT 2009 | kpm135
The Z-axis Drive card on our MPM UP2000 HiE fried. We replaced it with a new card, setting all the jumpers to match the old card. After that we had to recalibrate the Z-axis and the snugger height but the problem is that the camera is now too close t
Electronics Forum | Sun Nov 01 23:51:44 EST 2009 | boardhouse
Hi Julie, My opinion is that the top board would not pass IPC, solder mask encroachment on pads. Second board is what we call Orange peel,this can be caused two way's. 1) the solder mask was not tack dried enough prior to imaging which caused artwo
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 02 07:32:44 EST 2009 | umar
Hi..., We have build the PCBA base on IPC 610 and J-std-001 class 3 product, All the ESD pre caution been implement at my production side, ESD flooring, wear the ESD smock, wear the ESD shoe, use the finger coat and those not use the finger coat the
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 23 13:00:35 EDT 2010 | dwonch
Hi all, The board shop finally got back to me with some results. They did find residue present on some of the pads. They have sent a board out for evaluation to learn what it is. Hopefully from that we can determine the root cause. The good news i
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 18 17:36:10 EDT 2010 | sid
Good afternoon all, I have been trying to find a solution to a defect I just noticed. After stencil printing and smt part placement on the secondary side of my boards, I run them through a wave soldering system. All my components got soldered perfe
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 22 18:16:46 EST 2010 | padawanlinuxero
Hello ! I have a problem with one of high runner, our board comes in a seal package with dessicant cant really tell you how much RH% is inside the bag, but our board does not spend a lot of time in the shelf just some days or a couple of weeks max,
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 29 09:39:08 EDT 2014 | rgduval
I'll try to deal with the issues as you've presented them. 1. Blistering/delamination, shown in photo 2. The most likely cause of blistering/delamination like this is moisture in the boards. The moisture can get into the boards in multiple ways..
Electronics Forum | Sun Sep 07 13:33:50 EDT 2014 | horchak
Edri PCBA design and pad geometry is one of the critical factors for BGAs. Typically the pad size for collapsible balls is 80% of the ball diameter. Pad size consistency is critical. In your situation what will happen the larger pads will wick the s
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 08 11:16:12 EDT 2014 | cbeneat
We are having an intermittent issue with a certain board on our wave solder line, machine is a Vitronics 6922 Delta Wave, leaded process. There are 2 fuse holders on one edge of the board that are not getting solder all the way thru the barrel every
