Electronics Forum | Fri May 27 17:21:35 EDT 2005 | mrclean
Dear SM Rookies, Another acceptable test method is visual inspection. IPC-A-610 details what to look for with different contaminants, providing magnified pictures of the possible visual residues. With an existing cleaning process, magnification
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 03 10:44:26 EDT 2005 | ve7khz
Hi Grant, Rob et al. Thanks again for the thoughts and ideas. Yes, service is definately important and we are getting excellent service from our Panasonic and Amistar reps. We are in Canada and only run 5 days/week, 8 hour shifts, 150 different prod
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 03 09:00:06 EDT 2005 | russ
How many times have you found that your oven was performing differently? this will give you the answer on frequency. We have a dedicated board and profile that we use to verify the oven operation. We perform this every 3 mos. and I believe that th
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 14 08:37:18 EDT 2005 | jdumont
Morning all, just took a look at a new board we just got in and the there are different pad areas under the same BGA. What happened is engineering uses wider trace sizes for some pads and those overlap when more than one go to the same pad. This caus
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 16 18:16:32 EDT 2005 | davef
Josh: You're correct it's tough to describe the layout of the BGA pads and traces. We wouldn't be too excited about seeing this board either. On one hand, for the obvious lack of care taken in doing the layout, this is a junk board and you shouldn
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 28 18:20:49 EDT 2005 | russ
Matt, have you run a profile on this board? Just because it's .062" doesn't mean that any old .062" profile will work. We have .062" thick boards that almost nil for copper and other are utilizing 2 oz. layers internally. They require quite diffe
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 07 04:34:19 EDT 2005 | Lloyd
This problem exists at a very low level but happens on all our discrete components, all our products and in two plants. Between the PCB land and the component termination there is a barrier of flux residue, this actually lifts the component slightly
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 16 08:12:44 EDT 2005 | davef
skandaae: By "tilt" do you mean that one end of the 0603 has lifted from the board surface? If so, we call this "tombstone". In general, tombstoning is caused by an imbalance in temperature or forces on the component. * Convince yourself about the
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 12 09:51:42 EDT 2005 | russ
We use the JBC irons with and without the "leadfree" tips. We really have not noticed much difference between the standard and the lead free. The lead free tips do last a little longer but the tips are somewhat deformed by the extra plating. As f
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 13 14:50:29 EDT 2005 | rameshn
Dear Sir, We are manufacturing Computer Motherboards & Networking products (which are having 2 to 3 BGA Chips onboard) in our plant. we are having 2 nos of HELLER 1800W model Reflow Ovens. this model reflow oven is having 9 heating zones at both top
