Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 01 17:40:52 EST 2001 | davef
Listen to Wolfgang. Your dull solder connection is a process indicator. Some 63Sn / Au solder connections look grainy, depending on how your process them and the materials involved. Gold dissolving in tin forms an intermetallic compound [AuSn4] th
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 05 04:59:59 EST 2001 | madreindeer
hi, I have found dull joint when I have done trial if boards and cooling too fast.Also with Nitrogen.Some of paste don�t like Nitrogen too much. Also I have seen this when profile is not hot enough or flux haven�t survived to liquidus point. I wou
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 21 13:08:06 EST 2002 | vincent_f
Hello, I had recently a problem of crack between the solder ball (SnPb) and the Ni layer of the PCB pad. We use Electroless Ni/Au technology for PCB. This phenomena is amazing because the crack is very clean (straight) and it creates a space betwee
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 20 04:41:47 EDT 2002 | redmary
thanks, but I also encounter the solderability problem. because these boards are HASL or Ni/Au finish, and we print the solder paste and reflow, the result shows the some non-wetting area. and the reliability test also proves to be bad. so the critic
Electronics Forum | Sat May 14 03:56:40 EDT 2005 | Mika
I am interested in RoHS "through-hole soldering": We have a problem with solder wetting and fillet during selective and wave soldering, with a Ni/Au PCBA!! Different fluxes has been tested, but this is really a big issue. Now; there is only a few fl
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 14 13:12:30 EDT 2005 | Mika
Thanks Patrick, I our mixed standard HASL/RoHS production area; our customer have choosen Ni/Au plating for their RoHS boards. What You are saying (3.); is that we should be more attentive on the quality of the pcb manufactory. Even if our customer
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 09 21:21:22 EST 2007 | behrsam
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 joint is sealing.
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 25 04:55:08 EST 2007 | greg york
Strange as we have had huge problems with Silver in Many different Assembly houses. Mainly with Nitric Acid based Silvers causing blow holes, non wetting and even the Nitric etching away the tracks on fine boards. It has been one of the main problem
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 10 17:12:55 EDT 2008 | gregoryyork
I dont know about analysis on boards it is OK as long as the people carrying it out know how to interogate the answers.I worked on a problem just last week where an analysis house in China tested the resist then the pads and found on both surfaces C
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 31 05:26:14 EDT 2009 | d0min0
Hello, we had similar problem in the past - when we had to change PCB supplier from a batch of hundreds of boards (NiAu plated, SnPb process) we got 2-3 boards with paste wicking to components leads what we did, was to check the thickness of gold on
