Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 01 07:32:33 EST 2006 | davef
What you have run up against is the unfortunate consequence of the transition period from Sn-Pb to Pb-free. In the past 2-3 years there have been several studies highlighting the differences in reliability between mixed metal systems, Sn/Pb, and SAC
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 10 10:06:08 EST 2005 | steve
OK all you Gurus here's one for ya. Customer is tinning wires with standard eutectic solder in a solder pot. There is a blue tint to the solder in the pot. After tinning with OA flux, which I will change to NC shortly, he has clear teflon insulation
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 22 12:33:35 EDT 2014 | barryg
No we have a battery spring that is soldered directly to a PCB (standard tin plated copper PCB). The Battery spring supplier (and I have no confirmation he makes them or buys them) claims they are tin plated. When trying to solder to them it is very
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 07 17:43:31 EST 2011 | mikenil
Hi I do not work for a board house but a manufacturing facility where we do a considerable amount of soldering wires to through holes. We pretin our through holes on both sides of the PCB prior to reflowing the solder and installing the conductor (w
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 07 16:20:46 EST 2007 | davef
Bismuth is a low-melting metal with poor mechanical properties; if you melt the bismuth wire into a standard tin-lead solder joint, then the bismuth alloys with the solder, and forms a material that will crumble if you scrape it with your fingernail.
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 09 12:51:52 EDT 2006 | flipit
You can not solder to 30 micro inches of gold over nickel and certainly not 80 microns. You can not with tin lead solder or SAC305 anyway. The upper limit is between 6 and 10 micro inches of gold. This is what ENIG plates to. If you solder to gre
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 06 09:51:20 EDT 1998 | Bob Willis
This text may be of interest to any one with tin lead spots Guide to Solder Spots - A New Plague in Manufacture ? So what are solder spots ? They appear to be the next big problem in modern reflow assembly in fact in any process that involves solder
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 12 10:02:18 EST 2007 | rgduval
A little late to the party here, sorry... Has the joint been verified as a cold solder joint? That is, visually confirmed that it looks like cold solder, and, perhaps, xrayed to confirm the solder status? X-raying may sound a bit extreme, but you'
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 23 04:00:43 EDT 2003 | Paul Cooper
Hi there There are a number of things worth considering when viewing bga's. Firstly, like any other solder joint that you have been inspecting for years, suface finish is critical. Secondly, and again like other joints shape is important. Now it may
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 24 18:08:02 EDT 2001 | davef
1- DF1: WOW!!! How do people get these cool toys? CB: I am with the University at Buffalo Electronic Packaging Lab. http://www.packaging.buffalo.edu We have pretty much everything that is sold on the market as well as Laser inspection technologies we
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