The answer to your question is.......it depends. (How's that for not
sticking my neck out?) As long as you use electronic grade silicone (RTV) as
I mentioned in my previous post, then there is nothing in the material that
will harm your board. Heck, when I was involved in building high voltage
power supplies for military applications we potted the entire board in
silicone to prevent coronal discharge (also known as lightning.)  Silicone
conformal coating is actually quite popular for certain applications.
However, what I think you are referring to as far as contamination is when a
board has to be conformal coated or potted with another material. In that
situation, any silicone on the board will prevent adhesion of the coating so
one must be very conscience of contamination issues. So, like most things in
life, there is no absolute here. It all depends on your requirements,
compatibility to the rest of the process and your individual process
controls.

Bob

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Robert Barr
Manufacturing Engineering
Formation, Inc.
Voice: 856-234-5020 x3035
Fax: 856-234-6679

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> Subject: Re: [TN] Adhesive Recommendations? Silicon??
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>
> Hi, All,
>
> I'm still trying to reconcile all the continued use of silicon adhesives
> (as recommended by several learned members of this forum) with all the
> learned discussion about how terrible it is to put silicon anywhere near
> boards because of contamination issues. Is anyone prepared to put his/her
> neck on the line and try for a definitive statement on this issue - is
> silicon on boards good, OK or bad? If it's bad, why are so many
> still doing
> it? Is it Force Majeur, are there no alternatives, or is there a
> mysterious
> land out there where the use of silicon is not detrimental and
> the benefits
> are worth having? Which land is this?
>
> Peter
>

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