Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 15 09:29:29 EST 2012 | anvil1021
Maybe this piece of information will help. In China (just returned from visit) there are many factories that are using a dual temperature process using SAC305 or Sn100C and 42/58. Apparently this allows them to run their through hole parts through re
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 07 10:41:24 EDT 2005 | D.B. Cooper
We've seen the same thing - leads of QFPs not as strong as we'd like them to be. In the past 4 years no problem, this Spring they start failing. Touch a solder iron to it and it solders fine. After crunching some data, we found that both QFPs fail
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 03 11:20:35 EDT 2012 | davef
EricR: There's substantial information about the properties of solder alloys on the web. Here's an example of something that I clipped from one site Alloy ||Solidus (°C)||Liquidus (C°) ||Tensile Strength (psi / MPa) Sn42 Bi58||-E-||138||8000 / 55.2
Electronics Forum | Sat Nov 03 11:08:24 EDT 2012 | anvil1021
We have experience with this alloy, but with enig and we did start with PB HASL, none of our PCBs would of course pass thermal cycling at normal temperatures with the HASL so we went to ENIG. we could thermal cycle at 100-115C with no issues. We foun
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 07 21:36:17 EST 2012 | davef
Multiple process and rework thermal cycles are brutal on boards and components. Improving reliability of products through reducing thermal stress ends-up being a major driver to the interest in lower MP LF solders. Binary LF solders require the addit
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 26 23:43:49 EDT 2007 | gioblast
check your stencil design on the ground pad. You might have a big aperture opening that pushing the component away from the paste. Look alos the way your pcb warp. Prioritize side that has component that need flat pcb as much as possible. hope this h
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 31 02:04:19 EST 2019 | sssamw
From the picture, I cannot see clearly solder ball violate electrical clearance or cause a short, maybe it is. What I can see is the solder paste has some misalignment although it doesn't printed in solder mask area, but actual position will reduce
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 05 12:12:05 EDT 2000 | Ramon I Garcia C
Hello Friends: I'm new in SMT process, I have a problem with little balls of solder beside of the component, I'm tried reducing the apertures in the stencil and making home base, some times the balls desappear, but some time not, and some times
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 01 04:07:31 EDT 1999 | Brian
| Recently, our solder dross reclaimer refused to take our | used solder paste tubes. He said the small percent of paste | remaining in the tube is now considered hazardous waste. I'm interested in advice on how others are disposing of this "hazardou
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 02 10:31:48 EST 2020 | slthomas
It is strange that you're having issues while using the same process parameters (including stencil) that worked successfully before. It doesn't guarantee that it's not one of those parameters changing in a manner that's not apparent, but it does sugg
