Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 28 03:57:46 EST 2001 | peterbarton
Are you using a water based flux? Are the solder balls mainly around or near non-plated holes or near the edges of the PCB? If so the preheat must be set so the water content of the flux is fully evaporated before the board hits the solder wave. If
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 19 17:34:25 EDT 2000 | Deon Nungaray
Craig, I'd be really hesitant in pursuing this method for a TQFP. Remember, most SMD's are rated for a maximum rising slope of around 4C/Sec. Immersing a fragile TQFP in a hot wave of molten solder will probably exceed this ramp up rate. Besides thi
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 20 17:09:14 EDT 2005 | hly
I have a situation with hot boards with fine pitch BGAs that I need to build. However, there is a big problem--the auto screen printer is down. I decided that we would use the stencil and manually line up the pads and do a manual print. I can't ac
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 30 11:38:05 EDT 1999 | Brian Conner
| We are wave soldering some fabs with a lot of unmasked trace area along the edges. The trace area is solid copper covered with tin / lead, no masking, no components along the edges, same on solder side and component side (goofy board design). Ins
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 14 19:47:16 EDT 2004 | davef
use something other than HASL. "The rest of the world seems to be processing with no problems..." [Hello!!! Earth to Carol. This is a test.] Things you are considering could be more trouble than they�re worth. "1) Reduce via hole size" [If you re
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 30 10:54:37 EST 2001 | slthomas
Hey, Preacher, choir here. Unfortunately I didn't get to make the call here (hot boards, new product, same ol' same ol'), but I dam* well am looking for future (print) backup to assist in persuading the bottom line guys that it's cheaper to wait for
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 19 08:20:04 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | | For some as yet unkown reason, we have started to have some boards sag and go under the wave. The boards are surface mount top side and conventional components wave soldered. We have checked the wave hight and both the profiles on the wave so
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 19 09:01:00 EST 1998 | Dave F
| | | | | For some as yet unkown reason, we have started to have some boards sag and go under the wave. The boards are surface mount top side and conventional components wave soldered. We have checked the wave hight and both the profiles on the wave
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 19 09:32:52 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | | | | For some as yet unkown reason, we have started to have some boards sag and go under the wave. The boards are surface mount top side and conventional components wave soldered. We have checked the wave hight and both the profiles on the wav
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 19 09:55:47 EST 1998 | Dave F
| | | | | | | For some as yet unkown reason, we have started to have some boards sag and go under the wave. The boards are surface mount top side and conventional components wave soldered. We have checked the wave hight and both the profiles on the w