Sounds normal. Be sure you are not getting too hot or spending too long
above 183. And make sure that there is something under the finish, like
Nickel. If the termination is AgPd it is easy to leach it all off the
component. The more you leach the worse the solder fillet looks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of West, Jim
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 4:12 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [TN] Silver Palladium Termination
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a different process required to solder to a silver
> palladium termination?  We have ran these through our normal
> process and noticed that the parts with they type of
> termination do not look very good. Within the same reel, we
> have noticed some of parts look like they have some type of
> oxide build up because they have a dark gray appearance,
> while the others have the silver appearance.  Is this normal
> for this type of termination? Should we treat these different
> within our process?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim

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