Hand soldering by itself would rarely, if ever, cause a board to become warped. I suppose it could happen if the PWB was very small and thin, and the soldering iron were of the type that we used to solder stainless steel toolboxes when I was a kid, where we put the iron into a gas-fired urn to get it red hot.
If the hand soldering was done with the aid of a hot plate or oven, that is what would cause the entire board to heat up sufficiently to cause warpage.
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I'm not really sure what to say without seeing your boards and soldiering setup.
The only time I have seen boards warp significantly during hand soldering is when far too much heat for far too long was applied.
Is this a possibility? I mean, do you have large parts that require an enormous amount of heat?
Maybe since all the parts are on one side and hand soldering usually takes much longer than a wave or oven the PCB is just getting too hot on one side.
Ken
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How does cross-hatch recommendations change for single vs double sided assemblies (parts on one or both sides of the board)? Does it change with hand soldering? [Given that heat is applied unevenly to the board with hand soldering.] I ask as I had a design that warped noticeably after hand soldering--I'd call it reasonably dense, SMT with parts on only 1 side, 0.062" with 8 layers and 3 continous gnd planes (Mid1,Mid4,Mid6 as GND planes, out of Top/Mid1/Mid2/Mid3/Mid4/Mid5/Mid6/Bottom).
Shawn Upton, KB1CKT
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Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [TN] Hashing-Out Hatching
I would not use cross hatching in modern high-speed or RF designs, cross hatching is ok for designs that have no high-speed though.
We are to the point of taking the tightness of the prepreg weave into consideration
for impedance issues so a cross hatched reference plane is defiantly out of the question today.
To your question, the only issue I have ever seen, and continue to see, is warpage of unbalanced layers.
Use outer layer thieving pads and balance inner layers to avoid this and you will be ok.
Even the outer layer thieving is optional but I do it as often as I can. (some customers hate seeing it)
It's not very scientific, if you have a 6 layer PCB and layer 2 is a solid plane then make sure that layer 5 (at least) closely resembles.
Ken
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