We are planning to solder some surface mount capacitors with
palladium-silver terminations on our printed circuit assemblies using
tin-lead (SN63/37) solder.

Does anyone know of any long term reliability problems with this termination
alloy/soldering combination?

We can get these capacitors with nickel-tin terminations.

Given that our solder is tin-lead, does anyone know whether one of these
termination alloys would be preferable to the other?

Thanks for any insight you may be able to provide.

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