Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 22 16:02:22 EST 1997 | Justin Medernach
| what is your experience about the presence of the voids in the joints ? | Are they dangerous and when ? Vincenzo, Voids in solder joints can be caused by a number of factors. Let's begin with the flux vehicle in your soldering media. If the prope
Electronics Forum | Sun Oct 13 22:19:28 EDT 2002 | mikestringer
Hi Everyone What lubricants do your maintenance people use for the chains in your Reflow ovens? The manuals for our ovens have one recommendation - but I am always open to other people�s experiences and recommendations. Another option may be easie
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 05 18:39:06 EST 2008 | joeherz
Hello, We have recently installed a selective soldering machine and are seeing some voiding/cratering in random locations. We have done some basic experimenting with fluxing parameters, preheat and dwell times but haven't been able to eliminate it.
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 27 09:47:20 EDT 2018 | davef
Adding to Rob's suggestions ... One of the theories about voiding in thermal / ground pads of BTC is: Solder starts melting at the edge of the pad and moves inward towards the center of the solder mass. This traps flux volatilizes. So, there needs t
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 06 14:44:41 EST 2021 | dwl
1 to 1 stencil aperture to pad should be fine on the gull leads, and yield 100% coverage with leaded solder. The thermal pad is going to be a challenge though, if you truly need 100% coverage. There will be out gassing from the flux and this will nee
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 12 15:24:30 EDT 1998 | Steve A
| I am looking at purchaseing a full convection bench top oven from OK Industrys. (Model JEM-310) | It seems to have all the features that we will need for low volume production runs. | It has a Nitrogen input option, and I am intrested if anyone on
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 19 12:45:05 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| I have an Electrovert Ultrapak 445 Wavesolder machine with 3 IR preheat zones and a single wave with omega wave. | I want to run a DOE (Taguchi) to determine the optimum settings for soldering both single-sided and | double-sided boards. Can any
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 21 13:51:19 EST 2014 | rgduval
Armando, Is the problem in the same spot on the board with every run? If so, there might be something about that particular location that is part of the cause (ie. ground or power plane connection). It sounds like you're seeing blow holes, or insu
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 06 12:49:41 EDT 1998 | justin medernach
| I am looking for advice or information from anyone about the possible reliability problems associated with epoxy on solder pads of discrete devices. Will the epoxy expand and lift over time, Will there be adverse reaction between the solder and the
