The big question is: If you are doing a through hole board
with no surface mounts, why would you even want to switch
to Electroless Copper/Immersion Gold? HASL should be
much easier to solder to. For the most part, Electroless
Nickel/Immersion gold is more expensive than solder.

Ron Hayashi
Toppan Electronics

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