Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 14 11:00:38 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Mario: Your ask a very broad question and give no background information. Generally, the amount and type of residues present on a printed circuit board at the very beginning of a SMT line depends on the exposure of the board up to that point. For
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 26 12:44:42 EDT 2002 | dragonslayr
Scott- I've used both methods, titration and refractometer. Both are simple to perform. Titration is a simple, high school science class type process. Follow the chemical mixes accurately and then compare the resulting color change of liquid to a cha
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 27 12:02:00 EST 2003 | Mike Konrad
Dave is correct. No-clean flux + water = white residue (unless the proper chemical is mixed with the water). Additionally, no-clean flux + IPA = white residue. Many saponifiers work well as do other cleaning agents. White residue may also be a re
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 28 15:12:03 EST 1999 | Bill Schreiber
Rick, Ultrasonics is a mechanical scrubbing action (cavitation) similar to any other scrubbing action, if you scrub long enough, you stand the chance of wearing away some of the surface material (shiny coating of a solder joint). The shiny coat on a
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 06 12:03:12 EDT 1999 | Graham Naisbitt
| | Hi, | | | | Help! Could anyone help to enlighten me on this? | | | | Question: | | | | If I have a CSP/BGA package of size X by Y and the standoff gap between the component and PCB is Z, What is the maximum allowable Y/Z or X/Z that using a n
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 30 20:11:35 EDT 1999 | Mike Konrad
It is true that the use of saponifiers (and other water soluble additives) will lower the surface tension and aid in under component penetration. It is also true, however, that other specific design features within a batch machine can also aid in un
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 27 12:24:47 EST 1999 | RICK_EEI
Hi everyone. We use a small ultrasonic aqueous cleaner. After each PCB we hand solder, (water soluble) we place it in the cleaner immediately. Lately we have had some problems with the solder joints appearing to be corroding away. We tried lowering t
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 22 12:55:45 EDT 1999 | Mike Konrad
You may want to rethink using an inline for both OA and No-Clean applications. Since the majority of your applications are OA, it would not make a lot of economic sense to run saponifier in your inline for a minority application. My suggestion is t
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 14 13:07:06 EDT 2001 | bschreiber
Dave, The saponifier (or any additive) will supply free ions and contaminate the DI water. If no contamination is introduced (very difficult) or if fresh hot DI water is constantly added as in a steam age chamber, the DI water will begin to obtain
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 04 12:49:49 EST 2001 | bcaler
We use a Hach digital titrator. You can buy a digital titrator kit, hydrochloric acid, phenolphthalein indicator powder pillows, turkey baseter (or some bulbus sucking device) and a couple small measuring cups. We do tests twice per shift (more is
