Electronics Forum | Fri May 08 16:30:59 EDT 1998 | Chrys
| I am running boards with gold fingers on a pallet for | masking purposes. The pallets worked fine for a while | but know the gold fingers are getting solder on them. We | have tried everythin: new pallets, cleaning the pallet | and board to be s
Electronics Forum | Tue May 19 08:48:05 EDT 1998 | Aric Parr
| | I am running boards with gold fingers on a pallet for | | masking purposes. The pallets worked fine for a while | | but know the gold fingers are getting solder on them. We | | have tried everythin: new pallets, cleaning the pallet | | and boa
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 07 17:17:55 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Ashok: You should select and use low residue tapes. But ya know, ya go out and research a great tape and if yer not careful, the buyer will second source ya and (surprise) ya got residues again. We have found that Lemme say this about Katon tape
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 23 16:36:27 EDT 2004 | davef
Comments. Comments. Hell yeh, we got comments!!! You are correct to question the appearance of this solder connection. Based on your description, it's defective. Well at best, it's VERY suspect. That's the rule. If it's suspect, question it.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 14 14:36:29 EST 1998 | Mike Cox
Your questions would require volumes of information to answer completely. This is a readers digest version to help you get started volumes Don't rely on inspection as a process indicator of your quality and defect levels. Unfortunately Inspectio
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 14 09:33:18 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| Our plant in Slowakia tries to convince me that it is not possible to reflow FR2 PCB-material. | At this moment the PCB's leave the reflow dark coloured and they are schrinked. | | I'm still waiting for a reflow profile, because I can't believe th
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 08 10:16:24 EDT 2006 | slthomas
We had problems with Panasonic film caps with a previous employer. The first step was to use their recommended pad layouts rather than industry standards for the part sizes. The second much more helpful resolution was to complain like hell to Panaso
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 11 12:52:16 EDT 2000 | JohnW
Hi Guy's.. Been a long time since I've been on the forum so let's start by saying..dave..great recipe!!!.. Anyway's why am I on for...ha yes board deflection Wave soldering is a fun past time at best, it's made even more fun when your board deflec
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 04 08:08:10 EDT 1999 | Paul O.
| | We're getting field failures in a high impedance portion of the circuit. Think the unpopulated pc card has contaminates because we were able to grow dendrites by applying a 9 volt battery across the suspected pad, placed a drop of de-ionized wat
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 16 15:05:29 EDT 2006 | grantp
Hi, We ran some boards and the girl on the line put in some Pb BGA's instead of using RoHS parts. This should not have happened as we have almost no Pb parts left, and we spray painted Pb parts fluorescent pink so it was obvious. The boards seem t