Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 08 09:07:22 EST 2001 | Hussman
OK, without knowing the specifics, why does everyone blame the oven? Most solder balls occur around R's and C's in almost every shop I've been to. The best place to start looking is the screen printer - not the oven. Sure the oven is the last proc
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 05 12:12:05 EDT 2000 | Ramon I Garcia C
Hello Friends: I'm new in SMT process, I have a problem with little balls of solder beside of the component, I'm tried reducing the apertures in the stencil and making home base, some times the balls desappear, but some time not, and some times
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 08 12:02:15 EST 2001 | slthomas
After reading the variety of responses, I feel moved to ask if you're you talking about what are occasionally referred to as solder beads (mid-chip solder balls, attached to the waste line of your chip caps and resistors) or the solder balls that ten
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 05 10:45:01 EDT 2001 | dougie
Steven, There is a load of info on this if you check through the archives. Quick pointer though are: Solder balls are caused by paste creeping under the component at placement. The part is placed and the paste is squashed under the component, when t
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 02 08:52:36 EDT 2005 | davef
Dougs: What is the purpose of this test? Lately, we have had a lot of boards that do not withstand the Drive-Over The Board With A UPS Truck Test. We wonder is the is some relation between our test failures and your customer's.
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 01 16:55:27 EDT 2001 | davef
I agree. Poor soldering technique is the most straightward way of creating solder balls during hand soldering operations.
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 08 12:16:05 EST 2001 | Antonio
I wasn't specific which type. But all this info helps. Thanks a bunch fellas...
Electronics Forum | Mon May 10 18:43:23 EDT 2004 | steve davis
Just curious what stencil company are you currently using? What style of aperture are you using for the componet?
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 20 17:43:03 EDT 2019 | deanm
Looks like poor wetting/solderability to me. I don’t see heel fillets on the leads where the solder balls up. The solder has to go somewhere. It won’t flow where it won’t wet. Try printing a bare board and run through reflow. If the solder balls up o
Electronics Forum | Sun Jun 30 20:00:56 EDT 2002 | redmary
the SOIC encounter solder crack after reliability test, the common process is: SMT---manual soldering---IPT(in process test)---potting---T/C(thermal cycling,only add current and voltage)---B/T and F/T (burn in and functional test). the condition is 2
