We have used HALT/HASS on one product to evaluate our first use of intrusive 
solder. Although the testing was only done on a couple of boards, we picked what 
 we thought were visually "worst-case" intrusive solder joints. We could not 
make any of them fail.


On Wed, 25 Jun 1997 05:42:11 -0700 [log in to unmask] wrote:

> From: [log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 05:42:11 -0700
> Subject: HALT / HASS physical stress systems
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Greeetings all, 
> I would like to know if anyone has experience or "first-hand"
> information with either the HALT(highly acelerated life tests) and /or
> the HASS (highly accelerated stress screens) techniques developed by
> a company called QualMark.  I am interested in reliability testing of
> through hole devices soldered by intrusive soldering techniques.  
> Thanks to anyone who may be able to provide information.
> Jay Hinerman
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