Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 13 17:44:29 EDT 1999 | Christopher Lampron
| We process both tin/lead plated boards and gold plated boards in our surface mount group. I have used Sn62/Pb36/Ag2 solder paste on all gold plated boards to help prevent gold scavaging. To reduce the amount of different solder pastes we have to
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 02 13:00:12 EST 1999 | Bill Haynes
| I'm trying to get a feel for what the industry is doing with regards to collecting assembly defect data in the SMT/PWA process. Is it sampling or 100%? What are the points within the process where critical assembly defect data is collected. We run
Electronics Forum | Sun Jan 24 19:53:54 EST 1999 | Steve Gregory
| It has been known that sufficient cooling after soldering is important in order to get a stronger joint during its solidification stage. And it has been so much emphasised with reflow oven. But, why many models of wave soldering machine do not come
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 20 10:03:10 EST 1999 | Earl Moon
| I need some opinions (And I know everybody has one). | I am mounting a board into a case, after mounting the board | I am loading it with stress in the middle causing it to bend around .030 inch. The board is 4" X 6" and is Bending in the 4" dire
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 17 08:36:28 EST 1998 | Chrys
| For some as yet unkown reason, we have started to have some boards sag and go under the wave. The boards are surface mount top side and conventional components wave soldered. We have checked the wave hight and both the profiles on the wave solder a
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 12 03:58:10 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| What are the factors that go into determining PCB Board temperature requirements for the Wavesolder process? Most of the recipes I've seen call for preheating the PCB to around 230F - 250F. This temp is about 210F - 230F below the typical solder te
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 14 08:00:34 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| Also the preheating of the board is done to help evaporate any water/alcohol that is in the flux - water is a big problem in No-clean processes. From our experience, a temp range around 200f - no more than 220f is ideal for the bigger boards, but t
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 27 15:25:02 EST 1998 | Stefan W.
Hi Samson ! In order to give you more detailed information I would like to know what your component range is and how many boards you supposed to do. Panasonic and MPM are a good choice, however, Panasonic has not many P&P machines on the U.S. market,
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 15 19:43:13 EDT 1998 | Wayne Bracy
| Users Of Tanks To Clean Stencils & Boards: Please help me understand how your process works: | 1 What do you do before you tank clean a board or stencil? For instance, do you wipe the majority of the paste from the board or stencil? | 2 Do you
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 05 07:46:46 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| We have mixed to negative feelings about Omikron, but I beileve it is due to problems with the board fabricator rather than the process itself. When done properly, our Omikron boards have had very good solderability. However, we have had several