Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 03 03:23:04 EDT 2003 | loz
I have been advised recently about pcb manufacturers, that somehow or other supply pcb's with contamination. Visually they are fine, but problems arise during SMT manufacture, ie solder balling, non-wetting on pads, and also during wave solder proces
Electronics Forum | Sun Jul 06 10:07:03 EDT 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi Sam, Great answers so far. Let me take a stab at a few of your questions. Q1. whether this is named Pososity? I can't tell from your description. Several companies and the IPC have porosity tests to see if the Gold has good coverage of the und
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 09 04:57:11 EDT 2003 | Matt Kehoe
Our company applies solid solder to surface mount lands. While processing a micro BGA design we had some pads fall off, peel, whatever you might call it, from the surface of the board when touched "GENTLY" with the tip of a blade to remove a small s
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 09 16:01:10 EDT 2003 | russ
Mike, the one pad that is "small" definitely appears to be over etching (It looks like it was supposed to be much larger). What is the dims of this little bugger as compared to the Gerber? i would also tend to believe that there probably is some mask
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 15 10:44:49 EDT 2003 | MA/NY DDave
Hi, Although I grit my teeth it does sound like a normal process engineer or engineering situation. Here you are with knowledge and ways to get knowledge of best practices and No One listens. ----- Now I have a cleanliness testing joke (real sto
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 15 22:50:12 EDT 2003 | iman
We have an internal engineering study on blowhole solder joints and had helped reduce the problem to pinholes symtoms. The pinhole occurs in solder joint of a Land-Grid-Array (LGA) side-wall (external perimeter of package) fillets. Our customer is a
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 17 16:43:30 EDT 2003 | davef
We use timers all over our shop to keep track of pot life on epoxy, paste work time, etc. The timers we use are from "Big Clock" or someone like that. They cost about $10. They keep time, count time up [run time] and count down from a set time. [
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 28 17:13:28 EDT 2003 | Ryan Liao
Hello dear all: I have some problems with the CP642's vision process system . When the machine is working, sometimes the vision process system will appearance the error message. Error code :��1CA0A007�� Element code: FFFF Segment code: 0000 This s
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 04 10:55:35 EDT 2003 | caldon
My experience with Samsung has been great...very capable machine..so no issues with the machine itself. there are actually a lot of these machines in use....My problem is the Internal support..I know as of June they had 3 Services people supporting t
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 08 12:46:02 EDT 2003 | davef
When I was a salty old fart in the Navy, we sent the babes from the turnip patch off on snipe hunts. Shear tests are [in my opinion] senseless. The shear stress you measure depends more on the shear rate and on the point where the force is applied
