Hi Chris,
The normal board thickness tolerance is
about +/-.007in. . Typical solder thickness as paste is about .006 in. nom. If the
part floats to the top of the solder joint it will be something less than .006 or
if the switch leads sink to the copper surface in the molten solder then it
will be flush with the board surface… how much tolerance on the lead
bend? Mounting? Brackets? Front panel? Etc… What if the board warps? I
can see why you are looking for some sort of spec to refer to, however, there
may not be one. I certainly am not aware of one that could help… perhaps
someone else knows of something they could refer you to… but the only
method I know is to fully look at ALL the possibilities and work through the
math.
Best regards,
Bill Brooks
Datron World Communications, Inc.
(760)602-7004
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Subject: [DC] solder thickness
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Hello All,
A
mechanical designer is doing a tolerance stackup on one of our layouts and
asked what we allow for the height of the solder between the board and the
part. I babbled a while about how it's not that simple, then rooted around in
IPC specs a while but couldn't find anything more definitive than "wetting
is evident" for a value. I need to get back to him with a max value of some
sort.
Does
anyone out there have a value they plug in for stackup analysis?
We
have SMT push-button switches and need to know where the top of the button will
be relative to the surface of the PCB, min/max.
Thanks
in Advance,
Chris
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