Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 06 10:21:10 EDT 2004 | pioneertechnology
Hi All We have been manufacturing lead free in the UK for about two years now in a fashion. Let me expalin. Two years ago we began to change over our wave solder machines to lead free process. We read all the articles and attended the seminars on
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 05 15:09:37 EST 2006 | grantp
Hi, What studies? Can you post a link? I am not sure what the difference is between a ceramic BGA that the high temp solder ball is not expected to collapse, and a lead free solder ball that's run through a lead process and also does not collapse b
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 22 22:18:37 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| I am attemping to gather as much information on the issues with and progress in solutions for manufacturing Pb free products in response to European initiatives (WEEE). I am intereested in component issues with As Made lead terminations (no Sn/Pb)
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 08 11:50:55 EST 2011 | pgoodyear
As a technician that does frequent board level repair / rework some issues have come to mind. I have been an electronics technician for almost 50 years. In that time I have seen the evolution of electronics from point to point wiring using vacuum
Electronics Forum | Wed May 12 17:37:08 EDT 1999 | Timothy O'Neill
| I am looking for anyone who has converted over to VOC Free flux. I need some info on any problems, etc. that you might have had. | | Please E-mail me at wes.ruggles@vickers-systems.com or call at (513) 494-5229 | | Thanks | Wes Ruggles | Hi Wes
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 22 11:20:25 EDT 1998 | Russ Miculich
Barbara, I worked for 5 years with advanced materials including silver filled thermoplastics and epoxies for Alphametals. There is a trend towards lead free "solder paste". Some companies are using an Indium alloy paste and others are using a "lea
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 02 07:00:56 EDT 2003 | davef
Title : SOLDER JOINT RELIABILITY OF Sn-Ag-Cu BGA COMPONENTS ATTACHED WITH EUTECTIC Pb-Sn SOLDER PASTE Author : Fay Hua et al. Author Company : Intel Corporation Date : 01/01/2003 Source : Journal Of Surface Mount Technology, Volume 16-
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 02 10:51:45 EDT 2004 | patrickbruneel
Hi Ken, Thank you for the reply Ken. I hope I don�t get my behind in trouble for subject change in this thread. But you hit the nail on the head in your comment with Hitachi, when they converted to lead-free they had a �5 times higher defect rate� i
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 25 12:19:21 EDT 2005 | siverts
Hi all, We produced a RoHS (lead-free) prototype order recently, and there was some components that we needed to replace on a couple of PCBA's. We found it very hard to do this even with the new solder iron. The components was just small RoHS SOIC's
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 24 11:05:44 EDT 2005 | patrickbruneel
Javi, The reason you have an exemption for your product is because there are reliability concerns for lead free and it is impossible at this stage to guaranty backward compatibility. If a cell phone, TV or radio fails, no lives are at risk, you just
