Electronics Forum | Tue May 28 13:14:31 EDT 2002 | zanolli
Hello Mark, I'll assume that you are currently wave soldering and would like to eliminate that operation by using pre-forms or press-fit connectors. Solder preforms or solder flux bearing connector leads usually do not require any hole size changes,
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 06 07:16:36 EDT 2004 | davef
When moisture outgasses through plating, it continues through the molten solder, causing a meak solder connection. There's another issue with thin plating that we haven't focused on in this thread. If plating is thin, the stress on the barrel of a
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 09 13:41:06 EST 2007 | stepheniii
Don't forget that leadfree solder can leach the iron out of old solder tanks. Make sure yours is compatable with leadfree solder. You don't want the tank disolving, unleashing a tidal wave of molten solder.
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 10 12:44:55 EDT 2008 | vladig
Well, it wasn't as easy to figure out the root cause. The last image is below. It shows how the board finish looks like (the trace was under solder mask). AS you can see, the layer of E-Ni is spliting (the board shop admitted the problem afterwards).
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 06 13:02:36 EST 2001 | kmorris
Hi all: We are seeing "solder webbing" on the bottom side of some of our PCBs after wave solder. The solder is sticking (like a spider web) to the solder mask on the PCB. This is only happening on 2 of the many PCBs we wave on that machine. Both o
Electronics Forum | Sun Sep 02 09:06:42 EDT 2018 | davef
Cold resistance between the tip of the tool and the ground reference, tip current leakage, and tip voltage. per ANSI ESD STM 13.1 J-STD-001 Rev G, Appendix “A” Guidelines for Soldering Tools and Equipment: A-2 BENCHTOP AND HAND SOLDERING SYSTEMS Se
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 02 06:19:01 EDT 2005 | Dhanish
My customer feedback they found one board with cold solder on the BGA ball.I looked at the picture,the ball looks very shining but I dont think that is a cold solder.What is the method can be used to confirm the colde solder beside cross sectioning t
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 05 12:39:04 EDT 2007 | wavemasterlarry
Einstien was a wave solder guru? Lozie - if you keep you solder pot cold, how do you solder parts?
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 30 10:36:26 EDT 2009 | richie_puthotta
Hi, I see a huge solder mask shift on chip comp pads. This would result in mid-chip solder balls or solder beads. Overall, the solder mask workmanship is not acceptable. Mask is on pad.
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 25 13:30:35 EDT 2009 | rossi
It appears that the crack is between the paste and the ball. We physically pulled off the BGA by force and almost all the balls broke at the PCB. There was a thin layer of solder left on the pad. Maybe 1% of the balls stuck to the pad. I have attac
