Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 04 11:06:44 EDT 2008 | realchunks
Not sure why you would... but here are a couple of links that may help if you are having manufacturing problems http://www.smtinfo.net/docs/Electronic%20Production/9.htm http://www.midwestpcb.com/capabilities/plating2.html Granted I only have a Ma
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 18 14:38:41 EST 2008 | easton
I think the BLT solder joints look very shiny for no-lead. We are getting very good top side solder with ours though. They look like this. - Gold Enig plating - Alpha EF-6100 Flux - SAC305 - Preheat topside temperatures at 110 to 120C
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 16 09:54:12 EDT 2009 | davef
We know virtually nothing about your process, but here's some guesses: * Turn-off the nitrogen * Change from Sn63 to Sn62 * Change to a low-tombstone paste * Change the thermal recipe: slower ramp, longer soak * Do a better job of placing components
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 25 11:11:13 EDT 2009 | bruna
Hello, I want to hear some experience about selective soldering for PCB using nozzle plate and screens Do you have solder defects? bridges and insufficient soldering? How do you combat that? and about the screens you have good quality? What is the f
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 24 07:43:56 EDT 2009 | davef
Your customer is correct. You are doing something wrong in your hand soldering process. Solder balls are a process indicator. Areas to assess are: * Moisture content of the bare board * Thickness of the copper plating in the through holes * Temperatu
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 30 13:52:34 EDT 2009 | davef
Thoughts are: * 215-220 temperature at the leads is not real hot for leaded assembly. * It's peculiar for component leads to dewet. Sometimes non-wetting occurs along the edge of the lead where the lead is not plated. * How do the leads of a removed
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 25 07:13:20 EDT 2009 | davef
It sounds like the BGA balls are not melting. You're probably getting no collapse. Put a bare BGA on a hot plate. Heat it up until you get collapse. Adjust your reflow profile until you have that temperature on the BGA pads on the board. What is the
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 09 08:25:40 EDT 2009 | davef
We understand that you have boards in production that you need to ship. In the future, you could eliminate your moisture caused blow hole issue a lot more simply than baking. Consider requiring that your board fab plate the copper thickness of throug
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 25 13:09:42 EDT 2009 | rmitchell
Thanks to those that responded. I eliminated the light curtain problem. The metal plate the light curtain pcb bolts to was bent. I had it aligned in our machine shop and it worked properly. I forgot to mention the error was pooping up with no fee
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 26 14:40:07 EDT 2010 | blnorman
We had one product that used immersion silver plating. There were a couple of instances where we saw tarnishing, and elemental analysis confirmed the presence of sulfur. These boards did have the anti-tarnish sheets between boards, but somehow they
