Electronics Forum | Thu May 04 04:47:28 EDT 2006 | rlackey
Hi Pat, Not going to change, but has changed. We were first notified about a potential change 2 years ago, but as we're such a volume user we could turn around and say no thanks. However as every one else has now changed over on commodity parts &
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 28 08:37:52 EDT 2007 | davef
There is no good choice. Board Finishes: Industrial/Battelle Class 3 Environment [Reliability Knowledge Gaps: For use of Pb-free solders in High Reliability Applications, J Smetana, iNEMI Availability of SnPb-Compatible BGAs Workshop, March 1, 2007,
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 30 17:44:38 EST 2002 | davef
The gold is compatible with your solder. Gold will dissolve in your solder very quickly. Assuming you have a fairly large [~ couple hundred pounds] solder pot, the gold will not, over the short term, affect the performance of the pot. The issue is
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 11 16:58:24 EST 2005 | steve
I know this has been dealt with in the past but I couldn't dig up anything in the archives. If I'm soldering a 0402 lead free component with 63/37 solder is this a problem. Also lets take the opposite. If I'm soldering a lead bearing 0402 with lead f
Electronics Forum | Sat Feb 12 09:33:45 EST 2005 | davef
Here's one thread from the fine SMTnet Archives: http://www.smtnet.com/forums/Index.cfm?CFApp=1&Message_ID=30307
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 30 21:35:57 EST 2000 | Dave F
So, what's a clip lead? We've got two technologies 1 Surface mount 2 Pin through hole Major categories of pin through hole leads are: * Axial Lead Components have all of its lead wires extending from a component or module body along its long axis.
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 12 09:22:12 EDT 2006 | charless
Hi We are experiencing different failure modes between leaded and lead free through hole assemblies. The boards are PTH. In the case of lead free boards we are seeing fracturing of the component legs much earlier than we do with leaded assemblies. N
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 16 15:46:24 EDT 2006 | slthomas
The wording in your second post re: lead vs. lead free behavior seems to contradict your first post, but I'll assume you mean that the lead free boards fail sooner during vib. testing. My question is, if this is the case, are the parts that are fai
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 05 12:29:28 EDT 2010 | mikesewell
It is possible to infer that the lead is lifted based on the toe fillet appearance, but it's not as reliable as say a laser or xray inspection. This is usually done by varying the light source location and or color and looking at the images resultin
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 12 23:44:51 EDT 2016 | cmarasigan
Try to increase or set to 100% the Lead Check Side (%) for every QPF part data.
