Electronics Forum: shelf life (Page 31 of 38)

Long term effect of lead free solder on plating

Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 27 09:09:36 EST 2006 | davef

Silver on your copper or brass part is a solderability protection. The silver diffuses into the solder and you solder to the base metal, either the copper or brass in your case. Soldering to copper is well known. The issues are soldering to brass

Pcb immersion tin thickness

Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 09 08:06:07 EDT 2006 | davef

See "IPC-4554 Specification for Immersion Tin Plating for Printed Circuit Boards" 3.2.1 Immersion Tin Thickness. The most common reason for solderability issues with the white tin surface coating during multiple thermal excursions is a thin white ti

Lead Free paste

Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 20 16:56:19 EST 2006 | russ

Ahh the old Kester dry product EM907 just had major thicjener issues, we wer quailifying the kester product and could not get out of tube. needless to say it failed the qual. I was informed by Kester rep that all lots were recalled for this? was y

Reduction of solder paste usage

Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 05 11:04:14 EST 2007 | Yngwie

We are exploring ways to reduce the waste of solder paste. Here are some of the ideas I have in mind: 1) To use paste supplied in Syringe instead of jar. Paste that are opened more than 8 hours will normally be discarded, so we are looking for ways

PCB Delamination

Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 31 18:14:40 EST 2008 | boardhouse

Hi Felix, First thing to verify is that your supplier is actually suppling you with the correct material. China is known for not keeping with the requested materials and will substitute if not controlled. I would recomend ITEQ, TUC or Nan ya for of

Curing Conformal Coating

Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 05 05:27:13 EDT 2008 | andy1975

Hi, I've been looking into UV cureable conformal coating and the UV ovens but a chemist I know is very negative about this. He suggest by heating standard conformal coating to 90deg for a couple of minutes will make the product good enough to handle

Graphite/Carbon deposit on PWB ( any Industrial Specs?)

Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 13 11:55:23 EDT 2009 | boardhouse

Hi GSX, just and FYI on why you are seeing a difference per lots. Carbon Ink is Not used on a steady bases by most manufactures, and shelf life of the Carbon ink is fairly short, my guess is what they are doing is adding thinner to the carbon ink t

Chosing ENIG vs OSP

Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 02 17:45:46 EDT 2009 | boardhouse

Hi Nicoleta, As a board shop, either are good choices but in my experience with my customers ENIG has alway been the favorite due to it is easier to work with in regards to not having to tweak your equipment. As long as the board shop that you are u

solder paste

Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 09 09:47:32 EST 2009 | dyoungquist

I am curious as to why you need to mix.... We use a 500g cartridge with air gun. Our process is remove the cartridge from the fridge, allow it to warm up to room temperature before inserting into air gun, then apply bead of paste to the stencil. N

Pad finish

Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 07 08:13:52 EDT 2010 | remullis

I just swapped from the HASL to Immersion Silver mainly because the board house we use could not maintain consistency in keeping the pads level. I was constantly battling bumps and bad finishes on the pads. They are able to give me a consistent board


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