Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 21 16:39:50 EDT 2003 | k_h
You might try reducing your solder paste volume. To much solder paste gives the part a pool to float in, nullifying the positive effect of surface tension. I use an aperture on stencil for the heat sink which is 5mils reduced on each side and a 25mil
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 30 03:44:45 EDT 2003 | chrissieneale
Lwei, Our boards are double sided and have BGA's on one side. We always run this side first so we can x-ray inspect the BGA's for short circuits, then run the second side. Depending on what industry you are in you may have some problems.. we work in
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 28 18:34:17 EDT 2003 | Brian W.
We typically do not try to pick up and hand placve chip resisstors and capacitors. The risk and cost is too high for components that are a penny or less. We take into consideration that on many of our components, someone will have to test them to v
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 30 14:35:35 EDT 2003 | clarkk
Hello all, We have received reports from two customers about electrical leakage on pcb assemblies that used Kester paste #HM531 (63/37) and washed with Kester 'Bio-kleen' saponifier and DI water. The leakage is such that when the boards receive power
Electronics Forum | Fri May 02 12:41:16 EDT 2003 | Chris Lampron
Hi Chris, I had worked for a flex circuit house for 10 years. You should be able to follow your solder paste guidelines for times and temps. You may want to consider pre-baking the flex if it is made with Kapton. Kapton is Hygroscopic and will delam
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 10 18:54:12 EDT 2003 | fastek
Sorry guys. I'm not in agreement with your nightmarish vision of a Matrix based future. As a guy who has worked in the trenches since the 70's myself....I would say that anything that replaces humans in this business is a good thing. I've seen the ev
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 10 10:58:54 EDT 2003 | Frank
Hi, I currently work on SMT department to uptimize all process. I've just selected the solder paste after testing 15 different products. To be able to do that, I had to create a procedure to evaluate each paste and to be sure that my profil was per
Electronics Forum | Thu May 06 19:56:30 EDT 2004 | bruceatknoll
Here is some more info with regarding my Wave. 1. PCB .065" thick 2. leed length .20" (.135" protrution) I know this is high but we use many thousands and cutting each is not practical. 3. no clean flux by way of foam fluxer 4. wave machine is a HOL
Electronics Forum | Fri May 07 12:39:01 EDT 2004 | rontdc
Bruce, Using a foam fluxer with no-clean flux is a very touchy situation. It is imperative that the specific gravity of any flux be maintained within the manufacturers recommendations. If it is not, you will get icicles and bridging. Maintaining the
Electronics Forum | Fri May 07 17:38:00 EDT 2004 | bruce @ knoll
I will try that next. I did speed up the wave pump motor with a larger pully(20% more speed) This was done at the time to try to increase the size of the wave because I had component leeds touching the wave pot as they passed by. Due to the wave high
