Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 12 22:22:01 EDT 2004 | davef
Large voids are common in via in pad [seach the fine SMTnet Archives for earlier laments], especially in blind via. Observations on your via out gassing theory: * If the copper plating on your via is GT 1 thou, there will be no outgassing from the
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 28 12:33:05 EDT 2004 | Dave G
Rob, Don't know if you bought an "H" tower with your UP or not. You did you can have a dedicated support plate made from Aluminum that has pockets machined out to match components on the bottom of the board. (Most of the workholder guys can set you
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 16 15:07:00 EDT 2004 | jsmith01
I ran some test samples with a water soluble past (Amatech ws488). I also tried hand soldering using an Alpha ws375 wave soldering flux and some old fashioned RMA. The results are pretty much the same. Some of the joints look a better that others b
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 15 21:29:34 EST 2004 | davef
We�d say that it�s incorrect that ENIG solderability protection cannot be steam aged. It�s true the immersion tin and silver cannot be steam aged. We believe that most of the issues surrounding the poor performance of ENIG after steam aging is attr
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 16 10:30:35 EDT 2005 | clampron
Good Morning Everyone, We have had an issue with a specific board house on a job that has bright tin plating. At one point, a lot recieved proved to be unsolderable. The plating looked OK but no wetting would occur at reflow. We hagled with the boar
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 08 20:50:03 EST 2005 | davef
First, general comments about voiding in wave soldered connections are: * Causes of voids in solder connection are many: moisture, flux/paste volatiles, wave process, etc. * Impact on reliability of voids in a PTH solder connection is insignificant,
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 23 15:44:31 EDT 2007 | flipit
Steve, You read it the same way I read it. Some of my coworkers thought that the 600 micron and under spec meant that you could use lead solder and be exempt at this component pitch. That is why I posted it on SMTNET. The exemption specifically s
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 25 15:19:15 EDT 2007 | flipit
Steve, See the link below. See the out take from the link below. http://forum.europa.eu.int/Public/irc/env/rohs/library?l=/requests_exemptions/resistant_applications/hpdoc/_EN_1.0_&a=d The specific verbiage is, "This exemption request seeks to
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 23 16:27:28 EDT 2007 | davef
"If you wanna get a "warm n fuzzy" that your cleaner is capable of doing the job. One thing you can do is what I was taught when selecting a cleaner to buy, is get yourself some glass plates (heat resistant tempered glass to be sure!) and make yourse
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 06 11:58:48 EDT 2007 | gmoritz
Do you have BEC (Board Error Correction) > on that machine, and if so, did they > give you the alignment plate for it? I don't know if we have BEC on the machine. I can't even search the 550 page manual that was finally sent to us in a pdf file
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