Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 17 12:06:58 EST 2007 | pjc
5 Steps to Eliminate Bridges: 1. Establish (wave) Parallelism First and foremost, you must establish board-to-wave parallelism. This is the prerequisite to any wave solder process control. For an understanding of the power of this approach go to ht
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 28 12:18:32 EST 2005 | Chunks
Your best bet is to do a decision making matrix. Each company has so many different criteria�s it's hard to pick out which one might be important to yours. Simply pick out your top 5 paste manufactures. Next decide what your "Eliminators" are - th
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 10 14:10:38 EST 2002 | Randy Villeneuve
Steve, I wave solder most if not all our boards with selective wave pallets. I did not catch if the solder balls were on top of the board or on the bottom but that will make a difference on what to do to get rid of them. Pallets are good and bad. On
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 21 06:49:57 EST 2005 | pjc
Go to this link for a nice tool for wave solder process troubleshooting: http://www.speedlinetech.com/news_publications/application-notes.aspx?OnId=5 Look for "Wave Solder Troubleshooting Wizard" If you have an Electrovert machine, contact applica
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 17 03:34:51 EST 2005 | cangly
Hi, We have a board with over 100 chips (mixed size) and some long Connector DIP through out Wave solder with many issues of no solder and solder bridge, (using clean flux with bubble fluxer and Kester solder bar). Currently we tried to reduce the de
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 17 21:46:48 EST 2005 | C. Kolokoy
With DIP type components, a sub-par fluxing method (foaming a no-clean), and a chip wave where one is not needed are formulas for bridging and insufficient wetting. If you have SMD's on the wave solder side of the board greater than 0603, and no SOT
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 17 20:51:16 EST 2005 | cangly
Morning Mike, We use Pb63/Sn37, Alpha Metal alloy. Solder pot is at 250 C. The profile of board after Preheat about 100 C, Lambda Wave about 220C (use both Lambda and Chip wave), DWell time 2.1s ~ 3s. Conveyor speed 1.5 in/min. We run by bare board a
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 17 13:13:49 EST 2005 | Mike
Hello, Some questions.... Are you running lead free? What alloy? What�s your pot temp at? Temp of the board after preheat? Are you getting any solder in the barrels (
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 17 20:23:14 EST 2005 | cangly
Hi Russ, We control the gravity of flux each 8 hours and will mix thinner to balance it if any.. Do we need more any action for this.. Thanks for your advices.
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 18 08:31:09 EST 2005 | jdengler
This is way too long of a time. The SG probably changes significantly over this time. This could be a major contributor to your problems. Jerry