Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 21 14:29:37 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| HASL: (hot air solder leveling) is a process used to cover the Cu. Either Sn/Pb is used or Ni/Au or some other combo. In one case you create a land pad and in the other (with resin)you cover the Cu so that you only have a "trace." Is that correct s
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 29 20:53:44 EDT 1998 | Dave F
| Howdy all- | Does anybody have any experience with solid solder deposits as an alternative | to paste deposits? I have heard many good things, but do board fabricators have | the technology to do this? Where can I get more information on ho
Electronics Forum | Fri May 15 21:59:42 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| Hi, | There has been a lot of disputes in our company | about changing present HASL to another Finishing | which can provide more flatter pad surface in fine | pitch applications. ( perhaps Ni/Au, OSP ) | The target is to reduce solder defects, t
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 18 16:52:15 EDT 2002 | davef
General comments are: * First place I would look is the supplier of the pins that you are trying to install. Most suppliers that sell press fit components have done a good deal of work to qualify the component and will have all the specifications yo
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 | Mon Apr 25 12:19:21 EDT 2005 | siverts
Hi all, We produced a RoHS (lead-free) prototype order recently, and there was some components that we needed to replace on a couple of PCBA's. We found it very hard to do this even with the new solder iron. The components was just small RoHS SOIC's
Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 18 02:21:31 EST 2006 | pavel_murtishev
Good morning, Once again a met annoying solder beading issue while producing board with PLL (leadless, contacts from the bottom side of the package). Board has very high placement density and beads appear near PLL package only. This package is finep
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 10 17:18:11 EST 2007 | flipit
I am soldering a Germanium Window with a > metalized rim to a Ni-Au plated kovar lid. The > solder joint needs to be hermetic. I am using > 80In solder washer shape preform, but am > experiencing lots of voiding when x-rayed, > although the jo
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 22 20:34:25 EST 2007 | davef
This [ http://www.smtnet.com/library/index.cfm?fuseaction=view_article_html&file=no_hasl ] describes HASL [hot air solder leveling], as well as other common types of solderability protection. It goes on the discuss the impact of the use of these coa
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 08 08:03:16 EST 2007 | ck_the_flip
ENig can vary in quality, but I've never seen an ENiG board that's been downright unsolderable. At a CM where I worked, I had to prove a QE wrong. He was flippin' out (*no offense*) about black pad, something commonly seen on ENig boards, so what I
