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For years the military measured solder coating at the creast of a land. They
also said that the solder coating does not have to wet over the edge of the
land. Therefore, allowing a bit of exposed copper on the edges of a land. If
it worked all these years, we shouldn't be worried about minor exposure now.
At 09:40 AM 6/19/96 -0500, ROGER HELD wrote:
> I don't know much about your soldermask issue, but I would like to see
> some discussion of the exposed copper issue.
>
> We have felt for a long time that any exposed copper was unacceptable
> but with the industry switching over to OSP more and more, we have to
> accept a limited amount of copper exposure (when SMT pads don't get
> paste). If you are making SMT-only boards which don't flow across a
> wave solder then the amount of exposed copper goes up tremendously. I
> recently talked to people at a company which is very prominent in the
> electronics industry and has been allowing a large amount of exposed
> copper on their PCB assemblies (look inside your PC and see how much
> exposed copper you can find). They have done a significant amount of
> temperature and life testing and have seen no problems due to exposed
> copper.
>
> If this is true, isn't it time to stop worrying about exposed copper
> and start making boards and assemblies cheaper?
>
> Regards,
>
> Roger Held
> Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
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>Subject: Soldermask Tented Vias
>Author: [log in to unmask] at Internet-HICAM-OK
>Date: 6/19/96 8:48 AM
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>Good Morning,
>
>We usually require soldermask over bare copper and tented vias (less than
>.020"). This typically means that the soldermask is dry film. If a tented
>via is not required and liquid soldermask is used, it appears that the
>soldermask is suspect to flake off near the via knee, leaving a small amount
>of exposed copper.
>
>Is liquid solder mask over bare copper compliant with vias when the plating
>is eletroless nickel - immersion gold?
>
>Does the plating type matter?
>
>Is the suspect of exposed copper a non-issue?
>
>Thank you in advance of any comments.
>
>Kevin Thorson
>Lockhead Martin
>Eagan, Mn
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Regards,
Gary Ferrari
Tech Circuits
(203)269-3311
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