Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 09 15:10:01 EDT 2003 | swagner
Has anyone had negative experiences with hasl thicknesses below .00005'' of an inch on copper? If so could you please respond with what the problems were. Thanks in advance!!!
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 10 09:32:56 EDT 2003 | swagner
Dave F, so what kind of problems would I see if this turned into a problem?
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 11 09:22:27 EDT 2003 | swagner
Is there any conceivable way this could cause a tombstoned device?
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 11 16:50:18 EDT 2003 | davef
Sure it's conceivable that thin HASL can cause tombstoning. Harkening back to the ample discussion in the fine SMTnet Archives, tombstoning is caused by an imbalance in solder surface tension between the two pads of SMT component. The source of thi
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 12 09:10:23 EDT 2003 | Norm Morikawa
Around 1989 I had this probelmm with a SMT CCA that would not solder in one area consistently. I had it cross sectioned by the bare board supplier and found that under their metallurgical microscope the thickness of this HASL bare board could not be
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 12 13:14:33 EDT 2003 | Mark Kostinovsky
A little adition to Norm's statement: Sn-Pb intermettalic compounds do not accept solder as they are (even without being oxidized).
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 09 18:07:18 EDT 2003 | davef
We would be very wary of allowing 50 uinches, because this will likely result in reduced shelf life due to intermetallic growth. As a guesstimate, at least 10 uinches of that 50 uinches, and maybe more, is already intermetallic when you receive the b
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 10 12:56:09 EDT 2003 | davef
Intermetallic compounds [IMC]: * Form during the alloying process of some metals. In soldering these are Sn, Ni, Ag, Cu, Au. * Do not accept solder. * Increase in depth in logarithmic proportion to both time and temperature. [So during the solder
Electronics Forum | Mon May 29 23:39:11 EDT 2006 | Faizal
Can anyone advice me on the effect of SN100C wave solder on SAC305 hasl board? I suppose the silver content on the hasl pcb would leech(contaminate) into solder pot.? Would it affect the surface bonding between copper pad and the solder.?
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 30 08:17:53 EDT 2009 | davef
How do you specify HASL to your fabricator? We talked about issues with HASL previously here on SMTnet. Search the fine SMTnet Archives to find them. Here is a GREAT article on HASL written by an old friend Earl Moon: http://www.smtnet.com/express/1
