Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 09 09:54:16 EST 2002 | davef
Large copper pours create an unbalanced lay-up that is bad design practice, creating problems in fabrication and assembly. The hatching a previous poster mentioned could be an alternative. Stepping back a bit and wondering, what's the problem? You
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 10 05:03:58 EST 2002 | praveen
We are having solder fillet finish issue. The solder looks like rough solder on the connector leads .The plating of the leads is Nickel (99.9% purity) and the PCB plating is imersion gold. I have tried fine tuning my reflow profiles an have used N2 i
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 10 10:26:56 EST 2002 | davef
Questions are: * What is the current plating on the connector that is over the "plating of the leads is Nickel (99.9% purity)"? * What are the temperatures and durations at those temperatures that you read on these connector leads? * What solder allo
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 13 19:01:14 EST 2002 | Tooling Guy
I have heard of people using tiny lead-shot filled bags to hold down thru-hole components on circuit boards while running through a wave solder machine on selective solder pallets. How successful has this been? What kind of material is being used f
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 19 10:52:12 EST 2002 | bremerg
Does anyone have experience using Sn43Pb43Bi14 solder on high reliability circuit boards that are subjected from -55� Celsius to +85� Celsius? What companies/industries are using this solder? Does anyone have detailed information on what the proper
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 19 20:03:27 EST 2002 | edmentzer
Does any one have any experince with heatsinking a 240 lead QFP such as the Lattice Orca to the PCB? I have a customer who would like to know how this might be done. We are thinking of using some solder paste under the center of the part, or using
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 01 11:03:31 EST 2003 | davef
We just use stare titanium stiffeners from the wave soldering area. Titanium is probably over-kill for your needs, but will work. Sources for titanium stiffeners are: * APT 603.622.1211 Tom Dimagio * New Era Technology 603.669.77971 Jessie Ward * B
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 03 11:42:38 EST 2003 | soupatech
Hi, I am loading a new board with mostly 0603 packages. The pads are .5 mm apart and I am having a big problem with parts shifting towards eachother instead of centering on the pads. I believe this is caused by too much solder. I am using a 7mil sten
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 24 11:05:38 EST 2003 | johnw
I fyour just using Sn/Pb in your paste even using nitrogen will lave you with slightly grainy joints. The silver from your PCB will disolve into the Sn/Pb at 'uncontrolled' rate what I mean is depending on the temperature and time above liquidous the
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 21 11:11:07 EST 2003 | slthomas
OK, so the issue is with the variability of the alloys on the soldering surfaces and the subsequent variability of reflow temps. Sounds reasonable (actually obvious, now that I think about it), especially on the component side. We only use HASL fin
