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 Inge, Inge, Inge......
There is no such thing as a salary for a consultant.
You take what comes in [very often very late], pay your bills, and if anything is left over, it is yours.
And Inge, very tricky using a double-negative: "you get money without doing nothing"—gotcha!

Werner


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Inge <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Wed, 27 May 2009 2:46 pm
Subject: Re: [TN] humidity test failure









Better you quit, and I take your job and get your salary, I become rich = 10 
times what I have now. It's so much , that I can be generous and give you 
one half back= you get money without doing nothing. 

Inge 
 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Werner Engelmaier /*" <[log in to unmask]> 

To: <[log in to unmask]> 

Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 7:59 PM 

Subject: Re: [TN] humidity test failure 
 


No, if you quit and become a consultant, you become richer—the up-side. The 
down-—you are on the job 24/7/365. 
 

Werner 
 

 

 

 

-----Original Message----- 

From: Inge <[log in to unmask]> 

To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] 

Sent: Wed, 27 May 2009 1:45 pm 

Subject: Re: [TN] humidity test failure 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


So, if I quit, you become richer, can we share your 

extras? 
 


Inge 
 

 


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To: [log in to unmask] ; [log in to unmask] 
 


Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 7:08 

 PM 
 


Subject: Re: [TN] humidity test 

 failure 
 

 

 


Hi Inge, 

"Why do we repeat all failures that have 

 been known for decades?" 

Easy, most companies get rid of their experienced 

 people. And the new hires simply do not have the time to learn about 
anything 

 that happened previously. 

——sure keeps consultants busy, 

 though. 
 

Werner 
 

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message----- 

From: Inge <[log in to unmask]> 

To: 

 [log in to unmask] 

Sent: Wed, 27 May 2009 

 1:02 pm 

Subject: Re: [TN] humidity test failure 
 

 

We 

 had an awful lot of environmental test chambers, and we followed MIL-STD 
like 

 a blind klinging to his stick. With time, we have realized the 
questionable 

 relationship between those tests and the unpredictable mother Nature. The 

 exact repetition of temperature up, temp down, dwell, temp down=2 

0etc does not 

 always correspond to the erratic reality with endless variations and 

 combinations of condensation and vibration, heat and salt, power switching 
and 

 deep freeze, sun irradiation and sand blast , very short exposure followed 
by=C
2

 extremly long one etc etc. I listened to a guy who was a successful design 

 manager, whose motto was 'skip all testing, do the right design or process 

 from the beginnin g' . Easy said, but still interesting topic. Am brought 
up 

 with MIL-STD, so I'm little ambivalent, but I try to think like him. And, 
in 

 fact, with all billion hours of testing everything on this planet, should 
we 

 not have background enough for avoiding all disasters..like corroded 
ceramic 

 caps, for instance. Why do we repeat 

 all failures that have been known for 

 decades? 
 

Inge 
 

----- Original 

 Message ----- From: "Chris Mahanna" <[log in to unmask]> 

To: 

 <[log in to unmask]> 

Sent: 

 Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:34 PM 

Subject: Re: [TN] humidity test 

 failure 
 

Hi Wayne, 
 

Agreed. The DUT 

 probably slipped close to, or below dew. Close can be just as bad. And, 
surely 

 there is trapped ionics. But, I suspect a correlation ranking might show 
those 

 non-wetted solderable surfaces as your real 

 culprit. 
 

Ability to control the chamber and DUT is highly 

 dependent on absolute humidity. 85/85 is very tough. Anything higher is 
crazy. 

=2 

0 The common 25-65C, 90% is quite difficult without good multi loop control. 
If 

 you're cycling a heavy assembly=2
0you will probably want to use the surface 
temp 

 as an input to your controller. 

IPC-9201A is a good source of info. 

 NPL has several papers. 
 

Fully processed comb patterns can 

 'survive' 85/85 or 25-65/90 SIR/ECM tests for 1000 hours without cc, but 
it's 

 not 

 easy. 
 

Chris 
 

 

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 Thayer, Wayne 

Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:01 PM 

To: [log in to unmask] 

Subject: [TN] 

 humidity test failure 
 

Hi Technet 

 Gurus! 
 

I have attached a picture of a part responsible for 

 excess current draw during an extended humidity/temperature cycling test. 
(I 

 copied Steve so he can hopefully post!) 
 

The board was 

 carefully solvent cleaned, but no SIR test validating the process strips 
all 

 ionic contamination. The board is in an enclosure where plenty of ionic 

 contaminants are available. 
 

Humidity was supposed to not 

 exceed 90% and was to be non-condensing during cycling. There were a 
handful 

 of components which displayed similar deposits on the same circuit board. 

 These were the only parts biased during the humidity test. I believe the 

 evidence suggests at least some condensation occurred. To me the deposits 
look 

 like salts. But what do=C
2

 "the experts" think? 
 

Is there any 

 rule of thumb as to humidity levels where we are nuts to try to survive 

 without conformal coating? Part of the adjacent circuitry contains RF 
devices 

 and those guys get panic-stricken when told we probably n eed to conformal 

 coat! 
 

Wayne Thayer 
 

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