Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 11 19:41:06 EST 2008 | gregoryyork
Thats the problem residual residue from HASL fluxes Lead free especially are worse.Very hygroscopic and out gass and produce dewetting as well over wave soldered boards especially. Leave iron on blown joint and will after several seconds fizz and pop
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 12 18:58:19 EST 2008 | joeherz
I attended SMTA's copper dissolution webinar this morning and am almost convinced that this is not our problem. Still planning to do cross sections to verify but our dwell times are nowhere near levels that could cause a problem assuming good platin
Electronics Forum | Thu May 06 13:06:36 EDT 2010 | dwonch
Unfortunately nothing ground breaking to report. The board shops analysis (SEM/EDS)showed high levels of carbon and oxygen, likely indicating an organic based contaminate. They are still stumped on where it is coming from. We recieved some boards y
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 30 11:42:03 EST 2010 | hegemon
A simple question with very complex answers... But to simplify, you could start at this. Water soluble fluxes are cleaned using (typically) de-ionized water, using a spray wash method. Sometimes a saponifier is added to the water to help it get
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 13 19:23:05 EST 2011 | bandjwet
We have a customer whom we have built boards for. They want a "cleaner no clean look". The process uses a no clean Kester 256 SN63 solder paste. After reflow the "residue" noted by the client is too much. We have tried a few things. We are a small
Electronics Forum | Wed May 09 03:13:06 EDT 2012 | umar
I had send my coating board to the test lab for adhesion coating test. 3 times send, the result 3times fail. The coating chemical use is Humiseal 1B31. The process is clean the boards at washing process use the Vigon A200 saponifier mix with DI wate
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 14 14:08:44 EST 2023 | hhudson
Good Morning, I'm a relatively new engineer, and i've been experiencing a lot of anomalies when it comes to our inline wash. We have an Austin American Hydrojet, and no matter how many times i clean the tank, it still foams like crazy! its been happe
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 01 17:03:57 EST 2000 | Dave F
Curious, very curious ... Residues � Where are these residues? [solder & laminate / mask, solder only, laminate / mask only] What is the result of your analysis to the residues? How do you know it�s a flux residue, rather than a chemical by product
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 08 16:53:41 EST 1998 | Ryan Jennens
Hey there Dave! We used to use a batch cleaner when we used water-clean paste. It was similar to a dishwasher, except that it had a digital menu for entering the number of wash cycles, water temp., amount of saponifier (we just used DI water),
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 23 20:57:33 EST 2003 | davef
If the flux was not activated (ran in another area of the board), the flux should be removed from the board. Any Comments? A: We agree. In order for its �benigness� to take effect, NC flux is affected by: * Type of flux * Amount of flux * Proper ac
