Technical Papers

Equipment Impacts of Lead Free Wave Soldering

The popular tin (Sn) rich lead free solders are causing severe corrosion to many of the materials used in today’s Wave Solder systems. Users are experiencing higher maintenance frequency and reduced life of wave solder…

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Effect on Contact Time on Lead-Free Wave Soldering

The increasing use of lead-free solder has introduced a new set of process parameters when setting up wave solder equipment for effective soldering. Determining the proper flow characteristics of the solder wave for adequate hole…

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Flux Application for Lead-Free Wave Soldering

Lead-free wave soldering requires tighter process control than soldering with lead based alloys. A key area of the machine that impacts the ability to solder lead-free alloys without defects is the fluxer system. A large variety of…

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