Hi All,

This just a shot in the dark, but have any of you used this display in a
board that experiences vibration and have the solder joints fail?

We have a board that we're building using leaded solder, and use a
selective solder to solder it into the board. We electrically test it here
before we ship it. It goes out in the field and then the display will stop
working at some point. We've gotten the boards back, and discovered that it
usually is a cracked solder joint. In fact, you can pull the display
completely out of the board, the leads pull out of the solder joints. None
of the other through hole components have any issues, and there's quite a
few other through hole components on the board.

The leads are very stiff, they are some sort of copper alloy I think.
Olin194, does that sound right? I've had a hard time finding what they are
actually made from, or what the lead finish is. Supposedly they are ROHS
compliant. They've changed names a few times, started out as Agilent, then
Avago, now Broadcom.

Like I said this is a shot in the dark...

Thanks,

Steve

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Steve Gregory
Kimco Design and Manufacturing
Process Engineer
(208) 322-0500 Ext. -3133

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