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PCB warping during Reflow
I have design a PCB size about 100x60mm it reflow very nice on the hot plate but If I convert my PCB to a panelization 2x3 quantities size became 200x180, the edges began to lift up due to expansion ...
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SMT Reflow solder quality issue with SN42/BI58 paste
I have been doing hardware design and PCBA prototyping for a while and I have issues with quality of reflow soldering. I have a small lab including a pick'n'place machine, stencil printer (eC-stencil-...
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Can I expect a solderpaste circle to reliably reflow onto a smaller circlular pad?
For various reasons, I need to pad a bit more solder paste onto a fixed-size pad, and I cannot change the stencil thickness without messing up other footprints.
The pad is a 1.2mm diameter circle, and ...
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Rule of thumb for surface tension when placing components on the secondary side of a board
I've been working on my first multi-layer PCB design, and have been placing a variety of components on the secondary side of the board (mostly decoupling capacitors and QFN ICs). However, some of ...
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