Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 03 07:28:27 EST 2006 | davef
Via filling methods are: * Tenting * Plugging * Capping * Flooding Tented Via. A via covered with dry film soldermask; the via is not filled. When tenting from both sides there may be issues with trapped air that expands during mass soldering. Plug
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 20 13:35:52 EST 2006 | cuculi54986@yahoo.com
We evaluated the OM338 from Alpha and it worked great! Looked like crap, though, compared to the other products out there. When I set the boards out in front of the Alpha sales guy to show him the difference in appearance between his boards and the
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 08 19:09:44 EST 2006 | darby
I have just started production run using this component. After reflow I see that there is an undercut of solder between the pcb and the lead instead of a fillet. This means that some of the leads are sitting above the solder with no wetting to the co
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 26 13:13:07 EST 2009 | rgduval
We've had this same problem with the solder wicking to the component terminations. However, in our case, we did not see the pads turning a silver-white color...rather, they exhibited a tarnishing/darkening of the gold. We determined that we had som
Electronics Forum | Thu May 30 09:55:52 EDT 2013 | rgduval
I like AIM solder paste, personally. But, much like asking which pick and place machine is best on this board, you're likely to get as many opinions as there are paste manufacturers. I just took a look at Alpha's datasheet for this product, and it
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 20 14:34:29 EDT 2021 | korb23
1 1 I work for a small company as an apprentice. We build mostly mass produce double sided PCBs. We are having trouble keeping the pin headers flat to the PCB through the reflow oven process. The first side is pasted through a printer and populate
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 30 07:03:05 EDT 1999 | Scott Cook
| Hi everyone, | | Greetings! | | I�ve got a 2-layered through-hole PCB�s having the following problems: | | Solder Mask peels after wave soldering at random locations and only at the bootom side of the PCB | Insufficient Solder and some solder ne
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 19 09:47:23 EDT 2017 | georgetruitt
You have a lot to think about! What does the flux manufacturer recommend as far as specifics like water temp or pressure? Do they recommend high temp di-water a detergent or saponifier? Do you currently have a cleaning machine, batch cleaner or inl
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 01 21:18:31 EST 1999 | Chris Kelly
Glenn, There are both very good VOC-Free fluxes as well as alcohol based fluxes out there. This should be your primary focus if you are so lucky as to have to opportunity to actually select a flux! The use of nitrogen will benefit any no-clean pro
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 16 13:11:49 EDT 1998 | Steve A
The Kyzen product was brought to my attention from a chemist at Kester solders when I asked him what could remove no clean residue from a PCB that had been built weeks earlier. We soaked it in the Kyzen for 8 minutes and ran the board through the aq
