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flux residue after HAL - 12-/26-06 by yusuf

flux residue after HAL - 12-/26-06 by davef

flux residue after HAL - 12-/27-06 by

flux residue after HAL - 12-/29-06 by

flux residue after HAL - 01-/01-07 by

flux residue after HAL - 01-/08-07 by Jaime39

flux residue after HAL - 01-/15-07 by RFredericks

flux residue after HAL - 01-/17-07 by lyetc

yusuf

#46379

flux residue after HAL | 26 December, 2006

We use hot air leveling (HAL) process in pcb production. HAL process is 3 steps. �n 1. step flux. 2. step is HAL. And 3. step is rinsing. As you know there is mustn't any flux after rinsing operation. Our flux chemical is water soluable. But there are flux residue on some pcbs after rinsing. What's your suggestion? Using a brush during rinsing. or put some cleaner in rinse water. Another thing that we maybe use cleaner after HAL. I mean we should put all soldered plates in cleaner soluation in a container and wait for a while before rinsing operation.

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davef

#46382

flux residue after HAL | 26 December, 2006

What is the make-up of the residue? Is finding this residue new to your standard operation? What has changed?

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greg york

#46399

flux residue after HAL | 27 December, 2006

water alone especially cold is not good enough, how do you check for hasl fluids when most residues left behind after improper cleaning are non ionic.
Use 40C saponifier followed by heated rinse then cold rinse then DI rinse followed by dry.Nylon brushing is OK as long as fed with hot saponifier as well.No cold water as flux could gel and harder to clean off
best of luck

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yusuf

#46412

flux residue after HAL | 29 December, 2006

About one year we have that problem with some of pcbs. Our customers told us about that. Because they can't mounting components on those pcb reason of flux residue. As you know flux not conductive chemical. We didn't change anything before having that. Now we think that we must change operating system of rinsing process. Sorry for late reply.

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greg york

#46426

flux residue after HAL | 1 January, 2007

Hi
Happy New Year
HASL fluxes Are very conductive so best advise is get it all off.
thanks
greg

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Jaime39

#46537

flux residue after HAL | 8 January, 2007

The water soluble flux residue is staying there because the rinsing temperature it may be too low.
The flux needs about 130-140 degrees celcius to become soft.
If you are using water soluble flux, as per IPC A 610 standards it needs to be remove completely from the assemblies.
Hope this helps.

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RFredericks

#46670

flux residue after HAL | 15 January, 2007

celsius or fahrenheit? I am not entirely familiar with the deeper details of HASL, but 130F-140F is adequate to clean many of the water-soluble fluxes used for component soldering.

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lyetc

#46743

flux residue after HAL | 17 January, 2007

Hi...have you try ultrasonic cleaning before rinsing?

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