Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 12 03:58:10 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| What are the factors that go into determining PCB Board temperature requirements for the Wavesolder process? Most of the recipes I've seen call for preheating the PCB to around 230F - 250F. This temp is about 210F - 230F below the typical solder te
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 23 16:01:18 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| 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
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 08 03:33:50 EDT 1998 | Thomas Blesinger
| | I am trying to find out, what possibilities I have, to print solder paste on a board, when the task is to have 120 Microns thickness for the biggest part of the board (85% of the real estate), and then have 250 Microns of thickness on the remain
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 01 14:47:28 EDT 1998 | Jeff Sanchez
Good day, or night to all, | I'm new to the industry and I'm looking for some good source material to start my career in SMT. This forum is fantastic and your previous links are all very useful. However, if you don't mind re-iterating, can you ple
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 08 14:04:04 EDT 1998 | Kris Ewen
Manish, I've seen similar phenomenon when processing CSPs on our cards. In our case, we were placing the components over the opening to in-pad blind vias. Due to poor drilling and plating processes by our board suppliers, volatiles were outgassing
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 30 10:38:42 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| Anyone have ideas how to get MIL 50884 Qualification?. | | We are a small/mid sized Flex, rigid-flex circuit shop in Canada considering MIL Qualification. Is there any web site that we could check out? | | any advice is appreciated. | thank
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 22 09:59:15 EDT 1998 | Mike C
| Hi Jacqueline! | Do these joints that you're having problems with happen to be on fine pitch solder joints? Are the fillets staying attached to the foot and separating from the pads cleanly? | If that is true, are there many vias concentrated
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 03 15:43:18 EDT 1998 | Tim Flanagan
I need advice for locating 23 Gull wing LED's (all in a straight line) in the x,y, and z axis for a SMT PCB. It is a Hewlett Packard LED (P/N HMLA-QH00-01). The application uses a CCD to detect the position of a ball which floats in a resevior for
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 25 08:51:16 EDT 1998 | Justin Medernach
| | | Hi, | | | Does anyone has experiences in reflowing Ceramic BGA and found solder wicking ? Solder wicking has the syndrome that solder being wick from the pad and ended up in the leads. | | | We have rule out the possibility of not printing any
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 12 00:01:56 EDT 1998 | Peter
I have a customer who is transitioning from 100% thru hole boards to designing boards with smt components. We gave them our basic DFM guidelines and they have laid out 2 boards following these guidelines. When I saw the result of their first pass, I
