Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 02 10:51:45 EDT 2004 | patrickbruneel
Hi Ken, Thank you for the reply Ken. I hope I don�t get my behind in trouble for subject change in this thread. But you hit the nail on the head in your comment with Hitachi, when they converted to lead-free they had a �5 times higher defect rate� i
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 31 21:45:49 EDT 2004 | KEN
I have experienced this directly in SMT and wave solder. Fillet lift (can) be a direct indicator to lead enrichment (but its not the exclusive symptom). Lead enrichment in smt joints reduces the interfacial strength shortening the time to creep f
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 15 23:15:55 EDT 2004 | pdeuel
Im with Pete, Zero defects. We have high defect rate for many reasons. No line tech, operators set up and run then when QA reports defects engneers are called. Not to make people mad but our process engneers are lacking practical experance to fix pro
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 25 21:49:14 EDT 2004 | davef
First, any results of pull or shear tests are unscientific at best. [We pop our BGA from boards with, appropriately enough, a beverage can opener.] Second, we have no have problems with your ENIG specification. Third, as with your customer, we'd e
Electronics Forum | Sat Dec 04 18:55:38 EST 2004 | Grant
Hi, Yes, all you really need to do is boil the fluid while suspending the PCB above the vapor, so it's quite easy. However I would recommend against dropping the board direct into the vapor cloud, as that would be a very fast warm up, while letting
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 17 09:51:25 EST 2004 | AS
I'm looking for advise on setting up a prototype station for smt (we are currently outsourcing smt production, but have a need for rapid in house prototyping). The station must be able to handle only single sided boards with components no smaller th
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 28 12:17:49 EST 2005 | lyrtech
TO JAY: What type of assemblies are you having 50-75% fill on. - Capacitor, resistor Are they single sided? - Yes Plated through hole? - No Is this a recent problem? - Yes, first time, but we don't know how long it last. TO RUSS: What is your t
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 15 22:04:56 EST 2005 | KEN
The hasl joint looks fuller (and is easier to inspect)because it has more solder volume. Think about it. Your pre-plating your board with solder (before you add more solder). I doubt your getting 0.3 mils of hasl.....probably more like 1.3 to 3.0
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 27 14:20:57 EDT 2005 | Bob R.
If you visually inspect the solder joints of the first dozen or so boards with the Pb free parts and you're meeting workmanship standards then I wouldn't worry about it. When we started getting the first barrage of Pb free parts a couple years ago w
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 01 18:00:44 EDT 2005 | mrduckmann2000
RB, We have a gold finger problem here at our plant. Our kapton tape came off in the wave process and now we have 8 PCB's that have silver fingers. We are waiting on our new A.P.E. SRS-069 Gold Finger Plater. This mircle machine is going to fix a
