Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 21 17:11:24 EST 2017 | u4bga
We're about to setup our own soldering process... I have some experience from the contract manuf industry. Types of solder processes: - tip soldering robot for low volume - Japan UNIX LASER soldering machine for high volume Questions: 1) Examples
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 24 10:44:11 EDT 2000 | James
Ok, here's why we preheat. In my limited experience at our facility I have found that preheating the pallets a half hour before running boards thru the wave helps create a better gasket. We were having problems where the first boards run with the p
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 28 14:34:13 EDT 2000 | Gary Simbulan
Belive it or not, these boards were run through a Centech batch mode Vapor Phase machine. Single stage top side IR preheat. Vapor temp 218 C. Solder paste is an SN62 RMA.The boards were FR4 8 layer w/ solder mask, fairly conventional as might be e
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 17 19:42:34 EDT 2000 | Russ Cutler
We just bought a new Heller 1800 EXL reflow oven for reflowing SMT boards. We us a low temp RMA solder paste with 2% silver. Everything we build is to IPC Class 3 specifications. We have approximately 600 different types of circuit boards we build
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 08 12:40:54 EST 2001 | Ralph Merk
We are currently using 0402 resistors and capacitors in our production process. Our equipment is as follows: - DEK 265 - Siemens S25/F5 - Vitronics XPM520(5 zones) - 2% silver solder Alpha WS678 The problem is that randomly some 0402 capacitors are
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 08 16:09:09 EST 2000 | dean
Generally speaking with most electronic grade epoxies: 1. Cure time is a function of temperature. 2. Polymer bonds begin to quickly break down above certain temperatures (product specific). I believe aprox 170-180C. The strength of the bond de
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 14 23:01:48 EDT 1999 | Dennis O'Donnell
With loaded boards, warpage can be removed by placing the assembly in a wave solder conveyor pallet as you would if you were going to wave solder the assembly. Place board and fixture in a Blue M forced air oven at 90 C for 30 minutes. Let cool to r
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 01 11:03:51 EST 1999 | Dennis Xiong
Hello! SMT professionals, I do not know if anyone posted this question before. Last week, I reflowed our newly designed thin Rigid-Flex pcb with 0.040" thickness. I found all of pins of a TQFP48 ic did not get wetted. I could see on the heel side o
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 01 11:03:22 EST 1999 | Dennis Xiong
Hello! SMT professionals, I do not know if anyone posted this question before. Last week, I reflowed our newly designed thin Rigid-Flex pcb with 0.040" thickness. I found all of pins of a TQFP48 ic did not get wetted. I could see on the heel side o
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 26 20:18:23 EST 1998 | Dave f
| I need some info on how to stop the bridges I'm having on | radial and axial parts that are in the same place on every board. I'm also having problems with sot-25 bridging. I'm using a Electrovert E-pak. I tried leveling the machine,solder pot, an
