Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 22 02:45:23 EDT 1999 | Brian
| | Dear All, | | | | In order to understand the soldering technologies in SMT, I'd like to understand why some cards are soldered and then cleaned, or only soldered whitout water cleaning nor "ultra sound" wavelength. | | | | I mean that I wonder
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 27 19:50:59 EDT 1999 | chris
Hi What is the possible cause of non-wetting of solder paste to the gold land pad. What we observed in the surface of the non-wet pad is an organic FM, and using FTIR we found out that it is a flux. It is possible that the cause of non-wetting is
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 28 16:00:31 EST 2002 | bschreiber
Hello Dave, Water Washable (Organic Acid, OA) post solder flux residue is designed for cleaning in plain water without cleaning chemical additives. The real advantage of water washable flux was that it cleaned in plain water without additives � no
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 29 05:14:06 EST 1999 | Graham Naisbitt
Hi guys, I really am at a loss to understand this one. It would appear that there may be some reaction between the flux and the resist? Or maybe you have an OSP on the board that is reacting during soldering? As a fast fix, maybe you should try a
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 26 19:51:31 EDT 2001 | davef
Rosin. A hard, natural resin, consisting of abietic acid [and pimaric acids in Europe] and their isomers, some fatty acids, and terepene hydrocarbons. Rosin is extracted from pine tree stumps. It�s an organic material distilled from oleoresin in p
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 25 20:35:44 EDT 2001 | davef
According to J-STD-004 "Requirements for Soldering Fluxes", fluxes are classified by their chemical composition, activity level and halide content. In this scheme, each flux type is identified by a 4-character designator, where: * First two character
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 24 19:07:12 EST 2009 | gregoryyork
I agree Patrick many people blame the assembly fluxes when it is some other hygroscopic chemistry left on the bare PCB such as surfactents from the HASL process these will do exactly what the guy reported in his post fail then cool down and pass ever
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 10 12:52:21 EST 1999 | Dick Casagrande
|I'm getting in a little late on this but my 2 cents is: We have been using no-clean flux for a few years now but up till last month were still cleaning (the white residue) our boards (all thru hole). Finally did some investigation and found the flux
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 13 04:30:01 EDT 1999 | Brian
Hi! I recently remarked on a thread that so-called VOC-free fluxes weren't. As a result, I got three private e-mails asking what I meant. As this seems to be unclear, I'm starting a new thread with my explanation, rather than sending out the answers
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 14 13:10:49 EDT 2005 | Shean Dalton
Hi John, A primary consideration is the type of flux you are using. If it's water soluble (organic acid) then cleaning is highly recommended. Any other flux that fails the copper mirror test, we'd strongly recommend cleaning. Passing the copper m
