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Hi Neil

I stand by my earlier posting on this. Neither a solder resist nor a conformal coating will PREVENT dendrites, they might delay it for a while, but then what is lurking and festering underneath….just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water!?

Graham Naisbitt


On 5 Jul 2012, at 19:50, Neil Atkinson wrote:

> Thanks everyone for comments so far - haven't been on Technet for a while so it was good to get such good responses.
> 
> Really miss Werner for questions like this...
> 
> Actually we have never seen a failure for dendrites; however, we have a customer who has a past problem with another supplier due to dendrites on PCBs and as a result wants us to cover vias with solder resist or conformal coating.
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> Tha,
> 
> Neil
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