Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 10 07:22:48 EDT 2007 | davef
Q1. Is kapton tape an industry accepted way of protecting gold pads from solder splashes? A1. No. It is more accepted to resolve the reason behind the solder splats, so that the added labor and cost of taping is eliminated. Search the fine SMTnet Arc
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 17 20:46:55 EDT 2008 | davef
Which type? * Solder beads (mid-chip solder balls, attached to the waste line of your chip caps and resistors) This is more paste volume related. * Solder balls that tend to be more randomly scattered (as in spattered)? This tends to be more profile
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 28 21:16:17 EST 2006 | davef
J Rose at EMPF says: The introduction of no-clean solder fluxes in electronics manufacturing has given rise to greater levels of solder balling simply because the opportunity to remove them in the wash process does not exist. They are typically cause
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 21 13:43:13 EDT 1998 | Ben Salisbury
| Hello everyone, | I am currently running a gold plated SMT board and am experiencing tiny solder balls between the pads and the masking between the 20 mil pitch devices. I'm looking at these boards with a 60x microscope. IPC-610 say's any visible s
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 31 10:20:04 EST 2013 | rjohnston58
Need your help with a referee call on solder balls. See attached pictures. Engineering believes the solder balls and splash in pictures violate IPC-A-610E-2010 section 5.2.7.1. Purchasing on the other hand believes these are acceptable. Info: balls a
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 22 17:02:58 EDT 2008 | hegemon
You are on the right track Ismir. Essentially however, as the programmer of the machine, I am the one that creates the PCB with the errors to benchmark the settings for the machine. No secret lab though! :-) Easy enough for most any AOI machine to
Electronics Forum | Tue May 19 12:54:55 EDT 1998 | Richard Jackson
| We had a similar problem. But whenever the solder came from the screen printer the solder would wet to the gold fingers, with the help of residual flux. But the problem is balls, that I assume are not wetted to the gold fingers but instead are jus
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 21 13:40:00 EST 2014 | rgduval
If you're using the Kapton tape to protect the gold fingers from solder splatter, my first instinct is to say,yes, you do need it. I've had the pleasure of paying to have gold fingers reworked in the past. It is not in-expensive; certainly not equa
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 30 17:32:37 EST 2004 | russ
If you are lucky, you might be able to chip the solder off the fingers with an Exacto knife and then polish it up with a pink eraser. This does work if the solder on the fingers isn't wetted very well. Russ
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 08 11:35:16 EDT 2007 | patrickbruneel
80-90% of an average SM component is non wetable (pushing away solder). So if you would use a single smooth lambda wave (massive amount of molten metal) the negative force of the non-wetable part of the component would be so high that the solder wou
