Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 12 17:46:26 EST 1999 | Tom Gervascio
| | Good Morning everyone. Per repeated suggestions I have been reading back issues of SMT and Circuits Assembly magazines. I have just read an article concerning selective wave soldering which I understand is to be used when active SMTcomponents a
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 22 16:02:22 EST 1997 | Justin Medernach
| what is your experience about the presence of the voids in the joints ? | Are they dangerous and when ? Vincenzo, Voids in solder joints can be caused by a number of factors. Let's begin with the flux vehicle in your soldering media. If the prope
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 15 13:40:55 EDT 2001 | rkevin
Just as there are a number of causes of solder balling there are also several factors which can lead to or encourage the formation of solder beads. - During the placement of the component solder paste may be squeezed out from underneath the compone
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 24 19:08:17 EDT 2001 | stefo
Happy Friday All! Well, it seems another "opportunity" has presented itself to me. Looking to assemble a 24" X 24", 52-layer board... piece-o-cake, right? Not real sure of all the components that are on it, but I do know that there is some 20-mil
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 19 14:58:03 EDT 2001 | jschake
You provided excellent detail, and unfortunately I do not see anything out of the ordinary except the tooling issue. This brings us back to the original tooling related questions you had asked before. My apologies for questioning your process integ
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 26 17:01:52 EDT 2001 | davef
We process no Teflon boards. Companies, such as Rogers and Taconic, make laminates of Polytetrafluoroethylene [PTFE] er �Teflon�. Common �Teflon� laminates are: * Woven glass / PTFE * Random microfiber glass / PTFE * Ceramic / PTFE * Woven glass /
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 24 14:10:53 EDT 2002 | Terry Burnette
I've been informed that I can't post the Dye Penetrant paper on the SMTNET library till Advanced Packaging releases the paper in their Dec. issue. You should be able to pull a copy in the next couple of weeks from their site, http://ap.pennnet.com/ho
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 01 09:35:52 EST 2002 | James Bartlett
MINIMUM NDSU EMEG EQUIPMENT SPECIFICATIONS (11/1/02) To serve microsensor research and development via the Center for Nano-scale Science and Engineering (CNSE), the North Dakota State University (NDSU) Electronics Manufacturing Engineering Group (EM
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 03 10:21:11 EST 2002 | jimlew
I don't think I can post pics in this (if anyone knows otherwise let me know), so I will email them to anyone who's curious. Here's the answers to your questions: Placement Force: 0201s are placed on the Siemens S23s with 1 newton of force. The s
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 01 18:42:18 EST 2003 | rdr
Well, here is what I have found so far. I have removed the top of the BGA and found that the ball had detached from the package. Three balls were removed with the two adjacent balls pulling the pads off the board and stayed attached to the BGA while
