Webinars

Did you know that when quickly heating solder pastes it can volitize off the fluxes and carrying vehicles leading to a poor solder joint? This program discusses whether this is an acceptable practice and under what conditions manual reflowing of solder paste can be effectively accomplished. Lean the proper techniques, tooling and procedures to create a perfect connection each and every time.

Questions always arise about how much lead protrusion is enough or too much. This session will review issues related to lead protrusion in both supported and unsupported holes and what is considered acceptable or a defect. In addition, if you have damaged pins, are they "fixable" and what does IPC-A-610 allow you "to do" or "not to do" with this defect?

The majority of boards built today are coated with solder resist or solder mask as it is sometimes referred, but care should be taken to make sure that this process does not result in contamination. We will take a look at this concern along with issues you may want to consider if you want to take this a step further and apply conformal coatings to the final assembly.

Understanding how a flux in general can impact your production process is important to any soldered assembly. Selecting the right flux for a particular job is crucial to the quality of the final product. Identifying all the materials and how they interact with each other takes on a whole new meaning in making the right choices.

J-STD-001 "Requirements for Soldered Electrical and Electronic Assemblies" and J-STD-004 "Requirements for Soldering Fluxes" are two critical industry documents for interpreting and classifying fluxes used in any soldering process.