Circuit Board Rework and Repair Services
Component Tinning and Reballing
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July 22, 2020
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Here's a situation that you may experience someday, if you haven't already. A start-up electronics company discovered that they had a problem. Their contract assembler had just delivered the first 100 boards. Despite a thorough design review and initial prototype, they found that each board needed rework at several ball grid array (BGA) sites. The rework involved changing the circuit paths at the BGA sites, which required not only adding new circuits, but also severing ...
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I have a connector that is bowing during the lead-free soldering process. When the connector is put through an oven on its own, no bowing takes place. What Is Causing Connectors to Bow ...
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Watch a short video that shows our robotic BGA component reballing capabilities. Our high-reliability BGA Reballing service can quickly rework BGA components that require reballing. Reballing is most often required when the alloy of the BGA component solder balls needs to be changed from lead-free to leaded. Every BGA Reballing project is completed to meet IPC and JEDEC specifications.

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From time to time, gold edge contacts become contaminated with solder. This most often occurs during reflow of an assembly and may be caused by solder spatter or solder paste contamination of the contacts due to improper handling, or other reasons. Solder contamination is certainly an unacceptable ...
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Researchers revealed a technology that has the potential to revolutionize energy storage in electric vehicles and reduce energy loss ...
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Which one of the following is not an abbreviation of a computer language? ALGOL, COBOL, SQL, TALAL
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