Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 27 06:42:37 EST 2006 | Slaine
What are the long term issues with high tin content solders on parts plated with silver over copper? Is it possible that the silver will be absorbed by the solder then over a long period of time the tin will react with the copper causing it to part
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 21 07:44:44 EDT 2008 | patrickbruneel
Dave, I know that black pad isn't solderable by any alloy. But it's still justified to relate the nickel barrier plated boards to lead free. Before lead free the predominant board plating was HASL and OSP. These platings disappeared with the switch
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 29 20:19:43 EDT 2009 | 89jeong
Hi. We are doing Au bonding on Al bond pad not Au plated. If pull strength is less than 2.0g, i think that the ball or stich may be lifted from bond pad. And the value become lower after several reflow. I expect that the surface of bond pad may be c
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 15 11:32:04 EDT 2010 | patrickbruneel
Inspecting for plating problems shouldn’t be part of incoming inspection. Your board manufacturer should have the appropriate process control. I shouldn’t have said barrel cracks but plating skips. Plating skips are caused by dull drills or a too hi
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 18 14:22:37 EDT 2011 | bradbriggs
We recently ran into a situation where a SMT header with tin plated tails would not wet properly during reflow. Someone told us that tin plating has a shelf life and needs to be re-tinned after a length of time. I have not heard of that before. Do
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 20 18:21:49 EST 2013 | caurbach
A question for all you wave experts out there: We run our wave with a constant flow over the back plate. I know it's recommended that we set the back plate so that the solder sits just at the top of the back plate with surface tension keeping it fr
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 17 01:02:16 EDT 2015 | armandogomez
Hello Had a similar problem way back with the hydra, first go to the service program manually activate the hydra camera then move the Xwagon to place the hydra ref plate over the hydra camera and check first if the camera works, second the image you
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 08 11:37:44 EDT 2017 | jkitt84
davef, thanks for feedback. I talked with a plater who said they put copper before silver when plating brass. Would a complete stack of: Brass part, then 0.0001-0.0002" of copper, then 0.0005" of silver, then Tarniban anti oxidation. Sound reasonabl
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 05 05:25:27 EDT 2017 | heros_electronics
Hi, I think your friend wrongly changed the D code so that the finger width doesn't meet your requirements. And the fingers have long and short ones, which is hard to do selective gold plating because of not easy to add plating wires. Of course, you
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 24 22:56:52 EDT 2018 | sarason
IF you are wanting to do to this you are to late in the process. The gold is usually applied after the copper etching of the multilayer sandwich. The edge is extended beyong the board edge and the all pins are connected together with a bussbar. The b
