Bob Willis looks at the most common reasons for solder skips on surface mount during wave soldering and illustrates how pad length, solder mask thickness and gassing from solder mask and flux will contribute to the problem. Bob, in conjunction with the National Physical Laboratory Defect Database, will have an on-site clinic at IPC […]
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