Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 19 10:52:05 EDT 2010 | esca
Hi, if you want to verify the gold contamination, is mandatory to use the XPS and FTIR analysis, but is difficult think about a gold contamination from 3 different manufacturers. Do you have cleaned the PCBs after an erroneous screen process ? If no
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 19 11:04:21 EDT 2010 | baildl632
We have had some unusual reflow conditions with BGA's as well. We did not come to the conclusion that something was covering the lands though. It typically occured with only the BGA lands (not the decoupling caps on the back side). We found that the
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 19 11:26:32 EDT 2010 | davef
Independent Labs * American Competitiveness Institute; One International Plaza Suite 600, Philadelphia, PA 19113; 610-362-1200 F1290 info@aciusa.org * Bodycote Materials Testing , 847-676-2100, na.bodycote-mt.com * Foresite 765-457-8095, http://www
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 | Thu May 06 13:06:36 EDT 2010 | dwonch
Unfortunately nothing ground breaking to report. The board shops analysis (SEM/EDS)showed high levels of carbon and oxygen, likely indicating an organic based contaminate. They are still stumped on where it is coming from. We recieved some boards y
Electronics Forum | Fri May 07 09:25:55 EDT 2010 | dwonch
Yes, the vias under the BGAs are the only ones capped. I tend to agree with you that the leaching should affect the bottom more than the top and that was actually the case with the two previous shops that had this problem. We suspected with those s
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 16 12:47:48 EDT 2010 | boardhouse
White solder mask does have a tendency to yellow within the lead free environment. so double coating will not help any. I due believe the flux is a factor in the yellowing but due to the color is the main reason. Find out what brand of S/M mask they
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 28 18:29:25 EDT 2010 | jlawson
when I profile a customers oven / pcb I always > try a check to see if there is basic oven > temperature variation across its width....I have > to say that in my experience I have never seen > any significant variation on the Heller 1707EXL. > O
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 21 17:50:04 EDT 2010 | joeherz
Does it have to be one for both 1D and 2D? We > scan barcodes we print with a 200 DPI printer > which works out to 5 mil wide lines with no > problem. 2D barcodes need a completely different > kind of scanner. > > I know there are scanners > th
Electronics Forum | Thu May 20 09:47:25 EDT 2010 | pforister
Is this a single head Quad IVc or a dual headed line? if it is a dual line you can swap the align cards in the front bay between the two heads and see if the symptom follows. The card on the far right is a transport card, shouldn't need to swap tha
