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Ioan,
The dyne pens are essentially an alcohol mixture.  Wipe off the material 
with a little isopropyl alcohol and a wipe and you should be good.  They 
don't leave a residue as far as I can tell.

Doug Pauls



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One more before the week-end. I have added a picture to the gallery, 
showing a marking we see on some PCBs of this funky batch. Is this, by any 
chance, what the surface energy crayons leave on the board if the test 
fails?

 

http://ipc-technet.groupsite.com/galleries/photo/124230

 

Thanks,

 

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Ioan, 
Was the board by any chance fused tin-lead or HASL coated?    If a solder 
mask is not processed according to the mask vendor's guidelines, 
especially in relation to UV exposure and thermal bakes, then the solder 
mask can absorb things like fusing fluids or HASL fluxes that then get 
sealed in by the heat of fusion or by contacting molten metal.  You can 
sometimes see these coming out when you again expose the board to reflow 
conditions.  This is often why I run "heated controls" when I am doing an 
ionic cleanliness witch hunt.  If the bare board residue levels are 
relatively close to the heated controls, then the mask is probably good. 
If they are wildly different, then you have a potentially bad mask 
problem. 

What did the board look like visually when it came out of reflow.  Did it 
appear oily? 

Doug Pauls 

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In case you guys thought you got away by talking about alien espresso 
machines, I have one more question.

Took a bare board from stores and stuck it into the reflow oven. I have 
noticed smoke coming out from the tunnel while the PCB was in. Not huge or 
thick, but just enough smoke to notice it. Could this mean anything 
regarding the board, like not cured something, poor FR-4 or else?

Thanks,

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Dear Technos,



Back to orange peeling, this time concerning conformal coating, please see 

http://ipc-technet.groupsite.com/galleries/photo/124230



The coating is applied with an Asymtek Century machine and is a Conap 1170 

acrylic.



·         The board is left curing in ambient temperature, no 
acceleration. Starting with an even coating, in about 20-30 minutes the 
liquid seems to move towards a certain area (no rippling at this moment). 
After another 10-15 minutes the rippling effect sets in.

·         We thought that due to the almost 2 minutes lag between the 
coating of the first and last image, the drying of the coating layer is 
not even and the one side curing first pulls on the liquid at the other 
end. So we've cut the panel in 2, accelerated the machine, the problem is 
still there.

·         The boards are laid as flat as possible, maybe not perfectly 
horizontal, but not worse than others with the same coating, that do not 
show any issue

·         Just to make it more difficult: grabbed a non-populated panel 
from the stores, coated it, placed on the same flat surface, and guess 
what: no issues.



The PCB has Taiyo PSR 4000 MP soldermask.



So I would need your guidance in clarifying where is this coming from and 
how to fix it.



Thank you,



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