I'll add my $20/1K to this topic.
Nodules have to propagate from something. Four of the best
things are:
1. Dirt
2. Copper
3. Palladium (especially very low leveling acid copper
baths)
4. Carbon itself
I would really take a strong hard look at the filtration for
your circulation systems (air, and solution). Are there
enough bath turns? What size filter (microns, filter area)?
NOTE: Carbon treatment can contaminate an acid copper bath
with tiny, nodule producing carbon particles which float
around until some unsuspecting PWB panel comes in contact
with them. Then they attach themselves and copper nodules
begin propagating.
Look at the circulation of your copper baths. Does the
whole bath come in contact with the filtration media a large
number of times per day? One good thing to do is to pump
the acid copper bath over to a (handy) CLEAN tank through a
fine filter, then clean out your acid copper tank, then
filter (new filters) the solution back.
Also change your anode bags for new when you do this.
Sources for particles:
DIRT:
Air, panels, people working over the tanks
COPPER:
Anodes, panels, CuSO4
PALLADIUM:
Panels (Some electroless coppers don't put enough
copper on the panel surface to cover all the palladium,
scrubbing exposes palladium)
CARBON:
Carbon filtration, is the copy machine right next to
the acid copper tank he asks tongue in cheek? You really
ought to see what that stuff does to an acid copper deposit.
I tried it when I had too much time on my hands.
Sorry for being so long winded. I hope this helps. You
might also call your acid copper supplier for some help.
Also, one of the smartest people I have ever met on acid
copper is Peter Dzioba at MacDermid. 203.575.5700
Dave Sullivan
Rockwell Collins, Inc.
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Timothy,
When you look at the nodules under high power or microsection do
they appear to be small/short/and round or kind stringy?
Air agitation....when was the last time you changed your blowers' filters
and are they exposed to a semi dirty area susceptible to wind?
Could you have algae growth in your brightner tank? This seems to be
fairly common.<??????>
Thoughts....
Groovy
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At first we had a few worries of contaminants in the plating baths and
we Carbon and peroxide treated one bath and no improvement. There were
a few suggestions of having fungus in the brightner lines, as it is
automatically added based on an amphour meter.
All brightner lines were changes to eliminate this possibility.
For more information about the baths:
All three acid copper baths are in the same plating line. All baths
using one hoist and is controlled by a central computer.
The nodules seem to have shown up in all three baths apporximately the
same time.
Characteristics all three baths have in common:
Same agitation speed
Central controller (computer)
All three baths are Hot loading-with a 5 second lag
We are currently using PC-606 brightner.
All chloride levels are checked and all well within the vedors specs.
Questions:
1. Can a 5 second lag for hot loading be detrimental to copper plating?
2. What results will we see on a Copper plated panel if the ripple in
the rectifier is excessive.
If you have any suggestions or need more info, please let me know.
I'll get back with you on anode to cathode distance
T. Gaylor
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