Electronics Forum | Thu May 31 14:59:50 EDT 2012 | jdumont
I use Trace and certainly recommend them. I actually just had this test done last week. Adhesion test per ASTM-3359 Method B. We use Humiseal 1B73, which is similar to what you use. Is your soldermask "active" enough for this coating? I believe
Electronics Forum | Thu May 31 15:00:33 EDT 2012 | jdumont
I use Trace Labs and certainly recommend them. I actually just had this test done last week. Adhesion test per ASTM-3359 Method B. We also use Humiseal 1B73, which is similar to the 1B31 you use. Is your soldermask "active" enough for this coat
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 13 22:40:02 EST 2012 | davef
I expect that suppliers can just about always hold solder mask registration within a true position of 3 thou. That's the old SMT padstack think ... make the solder mask openings extend 3 thou larger than the copper. That way, even if the copper and t
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 04 22:24:28 EST 2015 | SKR
We are using Nutek NTM4910-XL laser marker to etch 2D barcode on all our boards. We added solid silkscreen box on all our boards to create contrast. When we laser etch them, we just burn the silkscreen box so that we can see the soldermask under it c
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 11 18:28:03 EDT 2015 | gregoryyork
Hi its undercured solder resist which leaves a clear waxy/oily residue and can be seen as brown tar/oil in the molten solder wave. This also causes MicroSolder Balling and some snail trails of solder pick up and worst case bridging and peeling resist
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 02 10:46:03 EDT 2016 | proceng1
We are getting more and more customers wanting LED boards built on White Solder Mask. Well our printers do not get as much contrast between the white mask and the plated fiducial pad, and often the camera only sees white. Other than playing with
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 03 12:18:49 EDT 2016 | dekhead
You don't say what kind of printers you are running, but if you had multiple light sources and independent control of direct an oblique lighting (either manual and software controlled) usually pretty "do-able". I have customer doing almost exclusivel
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 22 05:04:07 EST 2019 | SMTA-Matthew
We have some circuit boards where the solder mask seems clear instead of green on top of some of the tented via pads. No gold deposited during the ENiG process and no solder sticks to it but why is it clear and does it have any correlation to the thi
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 16 06:24:43 EDT 2000 | Wolfgang Busko
Hi Todd, it might be a philosophical question if soldermask between finepitch pads is prefered or not. That should depend on the capabilities of a particular site and their experience. We actually prefer soldermask down to 0,4mm pitch and don�t have
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 28 14:10:57 EST 1999 | Tom B
Hello Netters, I need some info, Earl or Dave, I have a PCB that exhibits a white layer on solder side. It does not appear to be surface residues (IPA has no effect), but looks like its under solder mask. My first guess is that the LPI solder mask
