Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 10 08:44:52 EST 1999 | Dave F
Vinesh: You�ll find no papers that "clearly describes the harmful effects" of your style "of white residues," because no one is crazy enough to brag that they are doing what your customer wants you to do. The residue of no-clean fluxes are designe
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 06 03:54:57 EST 1999 | Chris May
Hi Russ, I have a similar situation. I have been told that this can be caused by the nickel, over which the gold is plated, can result in suspect joints, embrittlement etc. Some joints can even be weak and broken without much force on some of my boa
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 01 13:19:52 EST 1999 | Wolfgang Busko
Hi Dick, first of all I will not judge what�s the best in your case for I don�t know all details of your situation. Just my opinion: As a matter of fact the amount of THT is rapidly decreasing compared to SMT. So, to stay in assembly business it vita
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 18 10:56:16 EST 1999 | Dave F
Jacky: There�re major four factors that affect the reliability of a solder connection. 1 Design of the connection including the shape and height of the lead and the type and amount of solder. 2 Dissolution of base metals into the solder connection.
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 22 11:16:04 EST 1999 | Boca
Chris, Some ramblings- Your choice depends on factors like which defects you're looking for, bugdet, quality inspection philosophy, high or low mix environment, sample sizes or 100%, and so on. Are you going to test 100% of the product coming off t
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 11 14:13:57 EST 1999 | Dave F
Thomas: From what you're telling us, you seem to be thinking correctly: 1 Paste should not spread appreciably in preheat 2 Something has changed, because you've not had this problem, until recently Two things to consider: 1 Has any thing changed
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 27 17:27:58 EDT 1999 | John Thorup
well... it might be cheaper. But I think it's a bad idea. First, your operators will hate you by the end of the day with their sore feet, not to mention lost productivity. Second, safety. Even if the plates are connected to ground through a resistor
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 19 14:56:55 EDT 1999 | JohnW
Nick, I've run this flux for a while and it's not too bad. There is a tendancy for there to be residue left on the PCB after wave due to the solid's content but it can be minised by putting some effort into setting up your spray fluxer to an optimum
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 12 03:48:46 EDT 1999 | Chris May
| In a cost-reduction effort, our Design group is attempting to eliminate silk-screen (legend ink) on some new products. By the elimination of this process, there will be a slight decrease in the cost of the bare board. | | Presently, the silk scre
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 12 04:33:15 EDT 1999 | Brian
| | | We have three buckets filled with leftover solder paste from our screen printing process. Kester has informed me that they no longer take paste, but only dross and pot dumpings. Does anyone know if there's someplace I can recycle this, or am