Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 01 08:12:04 EST 2006 | Chunks
OK, this is easy. You say HIGH fall out, so I can assume 25 or 50%? If so, run 10 without the heat gun and 10 with. This should show you if the heat gun process is the cause or not. If the relay is a surface mount, hand solder them on. If it's a
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 31 15:40:44 EST 2006 | mgdrouin1
Comp is relay. I've pulled the spec. Max 240. Using Leister h/g with manual temp settings from 1-6 (20 - 600C)set by the operator. Gun was set to setting 4. They are using the heat gun to reflow the solder after SMT but before wave. High fai
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 31 15:51:04 EST 2006 | russ
Relays huh? I can tell you from previous experience that relays are not a good heat gun candidate. Did you check how long this part can withstand the 240? I do not know what the 4 setting is on a liester but it is probably well in excess of the 24
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 01 22:27:16 EST 2006 | KEN
Many relays use soldered post coil terminatins inside the relay. In one case many years ago I found the SMT relay manufacturer used eutectic solder inside their hermetic relay. The SMT relay would fail because the solder balled up on the post, woul
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 28 14:34:13 EDT 2000 | Gary Simbulan
Belive it or not, these boards were run through a Centech batch mode Vapor Phase machine. Single stage top side IR preheat. Vapor temp 218 C. Solder paste is an SN62 RMA.The boards were FR4 8 layer w/ solder mask, fairly conventional as might be e
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 05 11:36:30 EST 2002 | William Guatemala
Have you check the flux gravity lately? If not, Check the flux gravity every 6 hours to make sure proper parameters are meet. Here is a list of things that may cause your solder ball problems; Excecive heat, defective fixtures, preheating temperature
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 16 19:05:57 EST 2002 | davidduke
Steve , I agree with all the responses you have received. Randy Villeneuve is absolutly correct in all of his assesments and I would consider him an expert with the process , Gris is correct about adding a "heat sink" to the process complicating pr
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 20 04:43:36 EST 2006 | greg york
Any decent flux would volatise off with the heat of the wave unless absorbed into the solder mask. Test this by trying to clean in alcohol or common solvent aerosol, if it does not clean then it is probably Mineral Salts from solder mask fillers. Ano
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 18 11:53:58 EDT 2014 | sara_pcb
Our contract manufacturing agency have procured pcbs from approved vendor. After assembly we found solder mask separated from the PCB on the epoxy area as patches. The top side is intact. also over the pcb tracks, the mask got damaged. In what c
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 19 08:38:13 EDT 2014 | davef
I can't picture much of what you're saying, not for nothing, I'm just not connecting. During assembly, solder mask can affected by heat and chemicals. Typically this would be during: * Soldering * Cleaning I will tell you this: Not to defend assem