Our new version PC board has a few bottom-side mounted capacitors that were not on our previous design.  Both designs are low-quantity builds of about 100 per year.  Our assembly house says they can’t run the board through their solder wave because of these parts and is planning to charge a significant fee to hand-solder the 200+ pins for the connectors.  I thought there was some sort of mask that could be placed over the bottom side parts, like the pink stuff they add to avoid filling the plated holes for mounting screws.  Are there any good methods that I should research to help them run our boards through the solder wave?



Also, I tried to find the TechNet archive to search for answers, but I was unable to use the search function.  Is there a help file on searching the TechNet archive?



Thanks,

Carl





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Carl B. Van Wormer, P.E., AE7GD

Senior Hardware Engineer

Cipher Engineering LLC

    21195 NW Evergreen Pkwy Ste 209

    Hillsboro, OR  97124-7167

    503-617-7447x303

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