It's pretty standard to process .010"thk copper for power flex circuits etc.....
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 7:09 AM
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Hi Bob,
I don't remember exactly how the board was constructed, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't etched. Copper that thick can be plated up. There's a company called UPE ( http://www.upe-inc.com/ ) that can plate up to 200 oz. copper!
This board was machined down around the edges to expose the copper plane, it went into a VME rack that pulled the heat from the board into the rack.
Steve
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Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 1:35 PM
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Steve,
Is a thick layer like that actually etched or is it a machined / stamped item that is part of the final stackup then plate through process?
Thanks,
Bob K.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 7:50 AM
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Hi Bill!
It's been a while, but I once built some boards that had two 20 oz. layers in them, one in layer 2, the other in layer 11 of a 12-layer board. Check
out:
http://stevezeva.homestead.com/HeavyMetal.jpg
http://stevezeva.homestead.com/HeavyMetal3.jpg
The SMT went surprisingly well. We had an Electrovert Omniflo-10 and the biggest thing I did was to slow my belt speed down from my normal 32-ipm to 26-ipm, the set-points on the zones was a pretty typical ramp-to-spike for tin lead solder. The copper actually seemed to help to even the heat across the PCB. Now the board is going to stay hotter for a longer time, I even think it was still liquidous for a split second while exiting the oven, but the reflow actually went pretty well.
Wave soldering was another story. We had selective pallets for these boards because there was SMT on both sides. The wave pre-heaters just couldn't heat everything up prior to the wave unless I slowed the belt speed to a crawl, which would mean that the board would spend WAY too much time over the wave.
So we wound up placing the pallet with the board into an oven to help get things preheated which helped a great deal with hole fill.
To even think about doing any sort of hand touch-up on a board with this much copper, pre-heat is absolutely necessary. We used Hakko's FR1012 IR pre-heaters, they worked great!
Steve
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Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 7:42 PM
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Subject: [TN] 10 oz Cu PCB Assys
Hello Fellow TechNetters:
Can anyone share some information on processing SMD's on PCB's that have 10 oz. of Cu?
Difficulties in processing, lessons learned, etc.
Thank you all in advance,
Bill
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