Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 30 12:14:40 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| | We are wave soldering some fabs with a lot of unmasked trace area along the edges. The trace area is solid copper covered with tin / lead, no masking, no components along the edges, same on solder side and component side (goofy board design). I
Electronics Forum | Sat Jan 23 13:29:40 EST 1999 | Earl Moon
| Hi Everyone, | We plan to build, for reliability/experimental/research purpose some CSPs (namely Tessera microBGA 46-I/O 0/75mm pitch and TI 64 I/O 0/8 mm pitch). the various factors that we plan to evaluate are the reliability and assembly concern
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 14 08:05:54 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | | I believe that gold fingers on my circuit boards are being | | | | contaminated and need to clean them with some chemical | | | | solution. Any recommendations. | | | | | | | Chuck: What is the type and source of your contamination? Dave
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 30 16:25:21 EDT 2002 | davef
Imm silver holds-up to multiple thermal cycles very well. The things, we guess, are happening to make imm silver tough to solder after heating and sitting are: * Oxidation of the silver. * Reduction of the co-deposited organic anti-tarnish [used in
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 18 18:39:15 EDT 2001 | davef
Responding to your questions ... RELIABILITY OF 1% SILVER SOLDER PASTE: It�s as good as the next solder paste, all other things the same. Look at your back articles by Jennie Hang in SMT magazine. I want to say she wrote an article on the topic i
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 07 10:57:31 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| | | | Where I can find some informations about repairing of SMT boards? | | | | | | | | Thanks | | | | | | | | Marcos | | | | | | | A first place to start is IPC's 7711 and 7721 encompasing repair, modification, and rework procedures. | | | |
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 19 11:12:41 EST 1999 | Dave F
| | | | | Folk's, | | | | | | | | | | I'm looking for information of how long you cna store a gold finish PCB before building it. I know there are problems with the gold disappearing into the underlying nickle over time / temperature etc but exactly
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 13 06:23:06 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| | We have a product, with various PWBs, with over 600 parts each one (We are a low Volume/high mix company with an average component placement per PCB between 250 to 300 parts). This PWBs have 7 to 10, 20 mils pitch parts. We are having problems wi
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 18 14:06:15 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
| | Now don't everyone jump on this at once, but it seems time for me to send out copies of my not even close to being dated copy of an article about HASL. Though it was published in 1992, in Printed Circuit Fabrication Magazine, and it got rave revi
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 05 21:11:35 EST 2000 | Dave F
The CDROM player in my personal computer just died and I replaced it with a more lively unit. Being an inveterate gearhead, of course I had to field strip the old CDROM player as soon as I pulled from my PC [and got the new one running]. There are
