Electronics Forum | Fri May 22 11:59:54 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| I hear ya' Earl! I don't know why there seems to be such a push for us to eliminate lead...you're right, assemblers are pretty clean when it comes to lead....actually, the whole industry is, when compared to other industries and the amounts of lead
Electronics Forum | Wed May 20 07:24:18 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| Hey there ya'll... | I was reading the messages from Earl asking where he could upload some articles he wrote, and I was asked how one goes about putting a image in the messages here... | Ya'll see down at the bottom where it says; "Option
Electronics Forum | Tue May 26 21:27:33 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | | | I'm reviewing my board fab spec. It calls for a minimum SnPb thickness of 50 microinches on HASL PWB's. I've looked at other specs that call out anything from 30 to 80 microinches, and others that just say the copper pad must be covered a
Electronics Forum | Wed May 27 11:19:34 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | | | | I'm reviewing my board fab spec. It calls for a minimum SnPb thickness of 50 microinches on HASL PWB's. I've looked at other specs that call out anything from 30 to 80 microinches, and others that just say the copper pad must be covered
Electronics Forum | Tue May 19 17:49:47 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | Earl, | | | I admit that I missed your article since I seemed to have let my subscription to Circuit Fabrication Magazine expire. I am interested in your experience in this area. Is there a way to get a copy of your paper? Could you maybe po
Electronics Forum | Tue May 19 05:42:36 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| Earl, | I admit that I missed your article since I seemed to have let my subscription to Circuit Fabrication Magazine expire. I am interested in your experience in this area. Is there a way to get a copy of your paper? Could you maybe post it to
Electronics Forum | Fri May 15 10:41:12 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| | | We had some failures on an IC package that the manufacturer has put down to moisture inside the package, leading to popcorning. | | | This seems a bit odd, the package is a PLCC 84 which is quite thick. I have only seen this problem on thin pac
Electronics Forum | Fri May 15 18:09:00 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | | We understand that testing for ionic contamination and surface insulation resistance measure different properties. We assemble printed circuit boards for other companies. We will not get combs on 90% of the boards that we assemble. | | | We h
Electronics Forum | Fri May 15 18:26:06 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| | Hello. | | 1 Could anyone tell me the range of temperature | | to solder MI components? The process eng is using 400~500 | | degrees Celcius!! For standard 0805/0603 chips & TH components & | | also to touch up on ICs. What
Electronics Forum | Mon May 04 21:54:14 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| I've never seen this before. Today, I got this tombstoning on Tantalum Capacitors (Okay, I saw that before) | Here's the part that seems weird to me: | -They didn't tombstone onto a termination - they went onto their sides! That's right, both ter
