Preventing plating and soldering voids is about testing new manufacturing processes and analyzing the results. Plating and soldering voids usually have an identifiable cause, such as the type of ...

The spacing between adjacent pads is too close to cause bridging, too far away will lead to false soldering. Unreasonable ...

PCB stencils make application of solder paste a snap, but there’s a long, fussy way to go before the paste goes on. You’ve got to come up with some way to accurately align the stencil over the board, ...

Component manufacturers are continually developing new and smaller packages for components that are mere fractions of a millimeter and have board to component clearances of less than a mil. Pick and ...

Solderstar will unveil its latest patent-pending verification tool, the WaveShuttle O₂, at Productronica 2025. Building on the success of the original WaveShuttle, this advanced version adds real-time ...

This project, sent in by [Henk], goes through a few different ways to make a solder stencil using a vinyl cutter, a CO2 laser, and a fiber laser. The project starts with identifying a method to ...