Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 15 07:04:59 EST 2001 | CRAIGS
Antonio, one possibility I have seen before on BGA shorts was due to chain slippage on the reflow oven due to worn gearing, the slippage was not severe enough to move other SMT devices but was enough to disturb the molten solder under the BGA
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 14 21:14:45 EST 2001 | davef
BGA Shorting 1 Damaged mask in between the BGA pad and via on the substrate. 2 Poor print registration. 3 Poor via segregation from the pads? Are they tented or is there just a dam in between? 4 Review the profile. You can run into a number of p
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 12 22:57:13 EDT 2003 | Dean
What is the surface finish of the PCB? Tin? Imersion Silver? What flux is used in wave solder and / or SMT? I have much experience with silver migration and tin wiskers. Both can disappear during a reqork cycle. Both can be extremely difficult
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 28 08:27:50 EDT 2000 | Tekguy2000
Yea you gotta love those airknives. It may not work in this application if the shorts are present at the trailing edge. I have several boards that are using conns with pins at .050" centers and they short. The protrusion is .030" to .040". The shorte
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 04 07:34:02 EDT 2001 | Shvetang Dewashrayee
We have problems of solder shorts while using DEK Infinity printers. Some of the manufacturing lines are configured ina way that the side (bottomside) of PCBs mostly with passive parts is screened first and then the otherside (topside) of the PCBs w
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 04 08:21:42 EST 2009 | rgduval
It seems familiar, but nothing that I've actually experienced. I've read some articles about tin-whiskering in lead-free solder. I think NASA has some pretty good analysis (or, at least they did a couple of years ago). The summary is that without
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 04 09:19:51 EDT 2001 | jhingtgen
Shvetang, From your post it is difficult to say why the shorts are occuring and in what area of the board. I offer my assistance to solving your issue, I am an Applications Eng with DEK USA. Please contact me via e-mail at jhingtgen@dek.com or phon
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 03 14:07:07 EST 2009 | macisaint
I'm having shorts appear on my QFN packages between pins, usually only after a week or so of power-on operation. The shorts are 1K and slowly down to hard shorts over time. Typically a defective part will have failures on multiple pins. I tried havi
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 17 10:46:04 EST 2007 | realchunks
First of all, more info is needed. Solder shorts can be caused by much more than flux. Is the solder short always in the same spot or all over the place? More detail please.
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 17 14:16:44 EST 2007 | realchunks
This is funny. Poeple giving answers to a question that isn't specific. What if the shorts he is having are on the top of his board, caused by flooding or Omega wave too high?
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