We were taking a small yield hit due to SMT LED failures because we had
exceeded their floor life.  The LED vendor actually was already aware of
the issue and changed the design of the LED's to decrease their moisture
sensitivity.  I think they went from a 72 hour floor life to 1 year.  As
others have said, follow the JEDEC/EIA guidelines for your devices and you
should be OK.  Good luck.

-- Gregg

At 01:22 PM 7/11/02, Andre Leclair wrote:
>Hi All
>
>   We have just started receiving some components for a new customer job and
>noted that they were moisture Sensitive, these were some Caps and some LEDS.
>
>Has any one seen these before??
>There was no information on the packaging other then the Level #.
>Bake and process requirements were left blank.
>Would I be asking for trouble if I followed the generic requirements for
>the specific levels of the devices?
>
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