Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 07 16:01:45 EST 2005 | JP
I am attempting to reball some PBGA's with no luck. The problem is getting the solder spheres to sit in the stencil apertures and removing excess spheres. I apply light amount of flux to pads of a BGA, align a stencil over a BGA, then pour solder s
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 14 08:08:42 EST 2005 | Champ Kind
Snaggletooth, I spent a good portion of my career fighting solder shorts on BGA's and QFP's, tombstones on 0402's, solderballs on passives, etc.. I've solved just about all those issues, and didn't solely rely on my stencil manufacturer... Your ste
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 14 12:48:21 EST 2005 | grantp
Hi, A second hand TP9-2U MYDATA could be picked up very low cost, however it will only load a single component at a time, which could be ok for your jobs. However if your running 0402, I am not sure if that model will do it accurately. Your machin
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 29 10:47:05 EST 2005 | Chris
The paper Dave posted the link for is great. I have to go back and read it in depth. I can build prototypes by wirebonding to ENIG. I can do it on a manual wirebonder but I don't have the patience to do it on a magazine to magazine automatic machi
Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 18 02:21:31 EST 2006 | pavel_murtishev
Good morning, Once again a met annoying solder beading issue while producing board with PLL (leadless, contacts from the bottom side of the package). Board has very high placement density and beads appear near PLL package only. This package is finep
Electronics Forum | Sun Mar 26 19:02:05 EST 2006 | ms
Hi We are running automatic stencil printers, open squeegees, stainless stencil, stainless blades, print speed 25-30mm/sec. We have a frustrating consistency issue printing .37x.3mm apertures on a 45pin LGA (11 pads each side, 1 large ground in mid
Electronics Forum | Thu May 11 13:28:49 EDT 2006 | patrickbruneel
Being a typically efficient Swiss based company Swatch started the task of RoHS conversion a year ago. After 2 years of intensive research they implemented the process in mass production in June 2005, they started shipping and found massive problem
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 08 23:26:28 EDT 2006 | Shawn Vike
We are a small company, reletivly new to doing our own SMT (1 year) and we are having an issue, I think. We manufacture many board with no problems, but we have one that constently defeats us. This particular PCB has ENIG finish, and we have had th
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 09 12:13:11 EDT 2006 | Chunks
Rob and Pete are both right. "We" had the same problem, with just one manufacturer of the same style QFP (don't want to name names here). We had the same style of QFP from a different manufacture right next to the problematic one on about 3 product
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 14 11:37:44 EDT 2006 | shawnvike
find the problem? Were the parts failing > electrically? Or did someone start prying them > and decide they were too weak? Originally found the problem going through some older assemblies that had failed testing. Poked at leads and found them no
