Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 19 18:41:33 EST 2007 | darby
You printer is not solely designed for printing solder paste. This is why some of the options you would never use for paste appear in the menu. You may actually be printing overlays or yes, even t-shirts. This is why you may want to flood/print, prin
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 08 10:10:29 EST 2008 | noid
We are building class 3 products, using no clean on wave and selective solder machines. Both processes are producing micro solder balls between the leads of through hole components. I have searched the site and haven't found any recent threads on h
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 14 23:37:38 EST 2008 | operator
That is bizarre. I would have to say that you need to do a test on the PCB to test solderability with an iron like mentioned before. If you don't find that the pads are contaminated or masked over lightly and the pads do take solder effortlessly, you
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 22 14:22:07 EST 2008 | stevek
Are you using nocleans, especially when you get to SMT? Years ago, I had OA wave flux get into vias that were plugged from the top under parts. It is really difficult to clean small, high aspect ratio vias. Cross sections showed that the copper in
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 26 14:25:19 EDT 2008 | jax
Current Acceptable HMP Soldering Methods: 1. Wave / Selective Solder: Some Brands require upgrades to heating elements and Pot materials 2. Laser: Works well with PTH and medium/large passive SMT. Damage to PCB masking can occur when try
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 16 18:46:46 EDT 2008 | mariss
emti, Thank you for the reply but I'm looking for a reasonable quality pcb mfg. We do SMT and thru-hole in house (3 Juki KE-750L machines) of our product. My problem is with the bare boards: holes poorly registered with top copper, solder masks mis
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 23 08:18:29 EDT 2008 | davef
Q1. Is this a standard process for plugging? A1. Not as such. We checked both IPC-6012 and IPC-SM-840. Neither comments on plugging. So, your fabrication notes rule the day. Q2. Is this okay for such thick PCB's or is it mandatory to use a special pl
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 04 14:17:18 EDT 2008 | grics
Patrick, you are right. I am sorry. It is a Water based flux. (We have another no clean flux indium 3592 that is used in our leaded process. It is alcohol based and had their base confused) Chunks, yes, this has always been a problem. If ther
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 09 11:53:36 EDT 2008 | davef
We consider "IR-reflow soldering profile" to be the supplier's recommended reflow thermal profile that a component temination 'sees' for proper soldering, regardless of the method used to reach that temperature. When you say, "We have a lot of defec
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 10 07:52:16 EDT 2009 | davef
On cure checking, we have this undated note from Jack Crawford at IPC * IPC-SM-840C "Qualification and Performance of Permanent Solder Mask" has several Test Methods for different types of solder resist material, but probably the only applicable one
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