Electronics Forum | Tue May 12 06:44:16 EDT 2009 | jhk71
We do a conformal coating for a customer with copper-nickel-gold pads on his board. The pads are masked prior to coating with a standard gel, containing ammonia. After thousands of boards, being processed like this, now the gold pads seem to be less
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 21 11:49:33 EST 2010 | remullis
1st the buyer shouldn't control the process based on cost. Let them buy stuff and stick to that. 2nd, I do think leveling in th HASL process is important. If you have high spots on pads for fine pitch your wiping away more of that aperture than othe
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 06 17:33:07 EST 2011 | boardhouse
Hi Johan, Sounds like you have already gone over your product very well to reduce product cost. Switching away from Deep gold Tabs & carbon ink Key pads can save quite a bit. The only other thing to suggest would be material - Moving away from Isol
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 14 11:56:49 EDT 2005 | patrickbruneel
Mika, 1.) Is there a maximum board thickness where it would be almost impossible to get a decent hole fil? Answer: The thicker the board the further the solder has to travel and the more you depend on solderability of boards and components, machine
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 06 08:38:25 EDT 2004 | Bob R.
You don't mention the board surface finish, but BGA's on NiAu are prone to brittle fracture in the Sn-Ni intermetallic on the board side of the joint. You may not be able to see it visually, but it would show up in a cross-section. In-circuit test
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 16 14:34:18 EDT 1999 | Glenn Robertson
| We are converting from COB to SMT on a product line and want to optomize the PCB as far as Laminate, plating, passivation etc. This is a high temp application 150C. We are presently using BT Laminate but would like to get away from this. We are
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 06 17:42:49 EDT 1998 | Bruce Houghton
| I'm having a problem getting good reflow on gold sufaced boards. The profile looks good and I have adjusted it both hotter and colder and adjusted the various times ( soak, reflow ) to no avail. What realy gets me Is that a month ago we built some
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 05 09:57:45 EST 2013 | cuperpeter
Hello All, We have a problem with dewetting of solder paste. Problem is most visible on the pads without components (see attached pictures) and occurs randomly, 20% of PCB's. Pcb supplier sent us a cross-section of pads with thickness of Cu, Ni and
Electronics Forum | Tue Apr 22 14:53:22 EDT 2003 | Robert
OK...I'm hooked on this subject. Were changing from NiAu to OSP as a "savings" and not because we choose too. So far we have had great success with BGA and are working on TSOP, SOP, etc. The only thing we have come to dislike so far is the ring aroun
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 25 21:02:42 EDT 2001 | davef
Try: 1 SMTA [http://www.smta.org] Knowledge Base Conference Proceedings: * 09/24/2000 COMPARISON OF AG, NI/AU, AND SOLDER PWB SURFACE FINISHES ON THE SECOND LEVEL RELIABILITY OF FINE PITCH AREA ARRAY ASSEMBLIES Lon E. Chase, Raytheon Electronic Syste
