Rob,
It looks to me to be the phenomenon of capillary flow rearing its ugly head again. Materials with low surface tensions (like silicones) tend to be subject to capillary forces from vias and low standoff components which tend to pull the material into thicker local areas (high fluorescence) leaving behind lower volumes of material (lower fluorescence)... think the principle of how the level of water in a straw is usually higher than the level of fluid it is in. This is usually made worse by the application of heavy wet films.
You are probably correct when you say that there is coating material present in the darker areas, the fluorescent tracer is typically ineffective below a certain minimum concentration and so you may not have enough tracer present to fluoresce efficiently, resulting in the darker areas you see. This is usually a cosmetic issue, but if your customer has issues (and cosmetic appearance is usually a key requirement), then a simple fix may be to apply a super thin first coat (almost as a primer), dry and then apply a normal coating thickness, or else simply apply a second coat to what you already have assuming a rework scenario.
Typically, aerosols are formulated to be heavy on solvent (low solids content) to overcome the poor atomizing ability of aerosol valves and switching to HVLP (or similar) spray application instead would likely enable your contractor to apply a thinner wet film at higher solids content and the issue may mysteriously vanish...
That would be my first step at corrective action. If that doesn't work, feel free to contact me offline.
Hope of some help.
Best Regards,
Phil.
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Rob,
What exactly is the customer's beef? Are they expecting to see a completely uniform film everywhere across the board? I don't really see anything wrong with the coating job.
What you may be seeing is residual material in the holes that can weep out. Do you blow out the holes with compressed air after batch cleaning?
Do you bake the boards after cleaning?
Doug Pauls
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Hi all,
We have an issues with one of our customers that we build PCA's for.
After we complete the build the customer sends it out for conformal
coating. It appears the coating or florecent does not like via holes.
I believe they are still getting good coverage and I don't think this is
a dewetting problem as there is still coating present in the darker
locations. I don't see these boards after they get coating but that's
what I am tolled.
These boards are double sided, lead free using water soluble paste/flux
washed in a batch cleaner with a 6% chemical concentration. We go
through many rinse cycles and clean to 1.4Meg (resistivity monitoring of
the rinse water, for what it's worth).
What might the casue of this be?... wash solution in the vias?? Below
is a link to the picture.
http://ipc-technet.groupsite.com/galleries/photo/117131
Rob
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