Jack, in my past life, I normally ask for the stocked material list before send for quote (ask for the capability matrix too). I do not ask anyone to buy special stuff outside their comfort zone. I am not very brave, and don't want be the 1st Ginny pig (anyone start talking about learning curve will scare me off). -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jack Olson Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:03 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] My first RoHS circuit board! Thanks for the advice (everyone!) Here's an update if anyone is interested: I sent a sample fab dwg to our primary supplier (in China) with notes that incorporated several of your recommendations (the main one being material /126 170Tg 330Td 30minT288) to see if it would cause them any problems before I send them the real order. They looked at it and said "No Problem. Our default material meets those requirements" So I told them that since I'm trying to learn about his I would like to know what kind of material it was, and could they send me a data sheet. Well, they sent a data sheet for something called S1000-2 which it says right on the data sheet is /99, but the parameters are 175Tg 335Td 10minT288 So I wrote back and asked if they had another material that is more robust, and they sent me data for a material called IT-180 which it says is /24 Tg180 Td350 >60minT288(?) I really don't think they are trying to be deceptive, but that they honestly think the only thing that matters is the Tg and Td numbers. And those numbers look pretty good! So now I'm wondering how hard I should push to get them to literally buy /126, and if by forcing them to use a material they aren't familiar with, if there will be other problems related to drilling, or desmear or plating or routing or whatever could be different from the /99 they are used to. Is there a "learning curve" with these materials? Jack . On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Whittaker, Dewey (EHCOE) < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Jack, > Just designing for RoHS compliance does not dictate the use of non-dicey > cured material. If you are designing a fully compliant, complex, > Lead-free design that will be exposed to a minimum of two lead-free > reflow profiles and one wave solder operation and expect it to work for > twenty plus years, then no dicey-cured FR4 shall apply. IPC-4101/126 and > /129 are phenolic cured materials which have demonstrated a robustness > that is up to the challenge. > Dewey > > -----Original Message----- > From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jack Olson > Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 2:29 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [TN] My first RoHS circuit board! > > Well, we avoided it as long as we could, but now I have to design for > RoHS > compliance. > > I'm basically following Werner's recommendations (which don't conflict > with > anyone else's as far as I know), but I'm confused about one aspect of > material: > Several sources have stated that its better to use "NON-DICEY" material, > but > none of the IPC-4101 slash sheets mention dicy or non-dicy (or > dicyandiamide). > If we are trying /126 material, do we still have to specify non-dicy? > > thanks, > Jack > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or > [log in to unmask] > ______________________________________________________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------- > Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 > To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text > in > the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet > To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to > [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) > To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to > [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest > Search the archives of previous posts at: > http://listserv.ipc.org/archives > Please visit IPC web site > http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional > information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 > ext.2815 > ----------------------------------------------------- > ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. 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