Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 20 17:51:14 EDT 2006 | Don
Immersion tin, if it is being correctly identified, is not a final surface finish for a bare board. White tin is typically the way a finish is refered to. Either way tin has gotten a very bad reputation via a couple satellite failures because of tin
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 27 11:50:21 EDT 2006 | samir
90% of the battle with thermal profiling is your thermocouple attachment. That is Process Engineering 101. It's just like painting your house. The masking and prep work will make or break the end result. KIC did a DoE on which thermocouple attach
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 26 03:32:29 EDT 2006 | saaitk
Hi all, Has anyone any experience they can share with regard to pad dissolution on PTH's on thick boards. We are using lead free SAC305 on both OSP and Immersion silver finishes and are experiencing difficulties when removing and replacing connector
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 26 09:20:43 EDT 2006 | PWH
I've seen failures like this with multilayer parts that seem to be affected by high activity flux during SMT (water soluable in this process). High, high failure rate in our case. I'm not sure what was going on with our parts but we thought maybe t
Electronics Forum | Tue May 02 15:43:06 EDT 2006 | bhall
Thank you PWH, All good points. I use a semi-automatic printing process not a screen printer so if more solder balls and beads are created then I would be creating more re-work and that is exactly what I do not want to do. I guess the best thing to
Electronics Forum | Tue May 09 14:49:57 EDT 2006 | Larry
Hey guys, Anybody having trouble with increased false contact issues in ICT after switching from lead to lead free? Our test guys keep trying to imply that the flux residues are a problem (we're using Alpha EF2202), but as the soldering process eng
Electronics Forum | Wed May 10 13:21:58 EDT 2006 | scombs
Thanks for the reply. We have carefully inspected the part and solder joint after depaneling and all looks good. What is weird is if you remove the part from the board and check continuity with a meter you have a dead short. If you put on a new part
Electronics Forum | Fri May 12 12:07:10 EDT 2006 | solderiron
The kester better known as KY'd Sn/Cu has more copper intermetallic growth over time, dissolves copper from the board faster so repairing and touchup can damage board. Bridges more than SN100c. Does not thermal cycle well. Has shrink cracks that can
Electronics Forum | Fri May 12 18:54:20 EDT 2006 | Ola
Sometimes when I go fishing i'll use lead on the end of the line, just above the hook, so that the bait is going to the bottom or at least very deep into the lake. At work however, lead is a non wanted product. Well, I don't mix work and pleaure...
Electronics Forum | Tue May 16 04:30:52 EDT 2006 | Rob
Take some of your boards along & run them. Try the same with the other alloys and see which suits your products best (make sure you make a note of the fluxes being used, and if the machines have similar preheats, nitrogen etc than yours).
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