Keep the bake time to no more than 1 hour, however. 1B31 can turn slightly yellow if baked for longer periods of time.
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Still, I would incorporate a decent bake of these boards to make sure you get all the water out, both out of the board and out of the coating. I suggest 100C for at least 1 hour.
1B31 or 1B31S has a tendency to get soft and tacky if you get it very hot, say above 80C. We have here, for many years, done pad repair on coated boards, and the cure cycle for the epoxy is 100C for 1 hour. We have not seen a negative effect from this, but be aware that at 100C, you might have a little bit of movement of the coating, which is why we always dry such boards in a flat position. Keep that in mind especially around connectors. On the other hand, heating to 100C may give you a minor benefit of "re-melting" it to the board surface.
Suggest you trial this on 1-2 boards first, then do a very close inspection on the boards for delamination, blisters, marks in the coating from oven grates, etc.
Doug Pauls
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Date: 02/11/2013 10:26 AM
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Sorry,
I should have mentioned, no chemicals, we're just doing DI aqueous wash!
But hi-pot just made it to the top of my list.
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How do you know the dielectric properties have not been degraded as part of the exposure to your wash chemicals? 1B31S has good adhesion, but what about chemical resistance.
In your shoes, I would do a dielectric withstanding voltage test (also called a hipot test) to see if exposure to the wash results in a decrease in your voltage withstanding.
Doug Pauls
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Dear Technos,
I know many of you already advocated against it, but my pain is so big that I need to check again.
Took 3 boards from the regular production, coated with 1B31S, and passed them in our in-line washer, at 135 F and 3ft/min. Except from coating starting peeling from 2-3 component tops, everything looks well.
Does this mean I'm OK, as I prefer touching-up the 2-3 components than doing repairs with no-clean?
What else should I check? Should I test anything else? How?
Thanks,
Ioan Tempea, ing.
Ingénieur principal de fabrication / Senior Manufacturing Engineer [signature002]<http://www.digico.cc/>
950 RUE BERGAR, LAVAL, QC, H7L 5A1<http://g.co/maps/2gh3f>
T+ 1 (450) 967-7100, EXT244
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