A very common mistake people make: if it does not glow, then there cannot
be any coating there. It's hard to deny that it is present when you can
plainly see the material under white light. Granted, it may not be at the
minimum thickness required but it is there. I like inspecting the overall
coating under white light first and use the UV light to inspect the
coating-free areas that are tougher to see.

Lloyd Duso
Plant Manager
Diamond-MT
(814) 535-3505
www.Diamond-mt.com

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Guy Ramsey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I am in over my head. I have little to no experience with conformal
> coating. Can anyone with more experience comment?
> thanks,
> Guy
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Guy Ramsey <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:51 AM
> Subject: Fwd: coating complaint
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
> I sent this message on to a friend who posts images for review by members
> of the IPC technet.
> We are looking for technical support and user experiences with this
> material.
> If we inspect at 5x-10x magnification we can observe the conditions that
> our customer is complaining about.
> But, our application process seems well controlled and the condition does
> not exist when the material is first dispensed. The material flows as it
> cures and becomes thin at the edges of the components. Thin enough so that
> is does not glow under UV light. In some instances components appear to
> have no coating (when viewed under UV). However under normal light it is
> easy to see the parts are coated.
> Is this normal behavior for the material?  Can we expect normal performance
> from the the coating?
> Guy Ramsey
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Guy Ramsey <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:41 AM
> Subject: coating complaint
> To: Steve Gregory <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> Hi Steve,
> Can you post these images on your homestead page for the group please?
> The images are of acrylic coating  Humiseal 1B31. We are applying a thinned
> mix using a dispenser through a fine needle (25AWG).
>
> Under room lighting we can see coating. Under UV light, at this
> magnification our customer is complaining about skips. I don't have enough
> experience with the material to know if this is normal or not.
> Notice how the resistor appears to have no coating under UV, but in normal
> light it is clearly coated.
> Also notice how the coating flows off of the components at the edges,
> leaving only a thin coating that may not glow under UV light.
> Are these normal attributes of this type coating.
>
> We do not see this with Urethane spray coatings.
>