Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 29 22:48:07 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| Can someone help me find info on gold repair? I know it can be done, but I need to know how expensive it is, etc. | Paul: The following seel gold finger repair kits, in-case you haven't had your dose of heavy metals: Hunter Products 792 Partridg
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 16 17:22:16 EDT 1999 | DaveJ
We have some SMT components with gold plated leads. They're actually LCC led packages. A good solder alloy to use would be Indium / Lead to reduce tin dissolution into the gold and avoid the resultant brittle intermetallic compound. However, a recomm
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 03 14:20:38 EDT 1999 | David
| Could someone shares their experience on the causes of 'Open' in the BGA after reflow. | | You must have been in the same meeting I was in earlier today. We are currently having some opens on BGAs. The problem joints are all on the perimeter of
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 16 13:33:31 EDT 1999 | Dale
We are converting from COB to SMT on a product line and want to optomize the PCB as far as Laminate, plating, passivation etc. This is a high temp application 150C. We are presently using BT Laminate but would like to get away from this. We are lo
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 16 22:44:27 EDT 1999 | Vic Lau
| We are currently assemblying several different board type with gold plated lands with varying results. Can any of you that has successful experience in this area give me some pointers. What paste do you use? Do you use the recommended reflow pro
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 18 12:50:32 EDT 1999 | jseagle
We currently use HASL on all of our boards and I would like to move to something else. I have sampled some boards with Entek OSP and I loved it, the problem is we have plated mounting holes on just about every board we make. Does anyone have inform
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 17 17:26:56 EDT 1999 | wayne sanita
first of all what is the technical term for the small amount of solder on a plated pad. we are getting poor screen printing gasketing on a 20 mil qfp due to this solder not being even or too high in spots and not covering the length of the pads. any
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 03 17:36:38 EDT 1999 | Dave F
.020" pitch spacing. Which have yielded my process excelent results. | My main stencil supplier is I-Source in Irvine, CA and has pretty much standardized on 100% lazer cut stencils for competetive pricing. | Hope this helps. | | Deon Nungaray | SM
Electronics Forum | Sun May 30 08:50:42 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| Yes l know this problem keeps cropping up on the forum but l've missed some of the follow-ups. | | Our problem is that the lifting only occurs on 3% of production so actually detecting an improvement is difficult. We're actually having to inspect
Electronics Forum | Mon May 03 11:26:53 EDT 1999 | Dave F
John: Homeplate is a reference from that American version of cricket ... baseball. In baseball, the pitcher throws the ball towards the batter and the ball must pass over homeplate to be considered to be strike. The ball also must be between the b
