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5 Benefits of Putting Nitrogen into Reflow Oven

Monday, January 7th, 2019

The reflow oven is one of the indispensable equipments in SMT. Putting the PCB with components goes through the reflow oven then the solder paste adhering on the printed circuit board will melt. After the solder paste getting cold, the components will adhere to the PCB stably.

Picture of reflow oven

Picture of reflow oven

After you have learned something about reflow oven, have you ever know how to make the reflow oven work better? Here are 3 benefits of putting nitrogen into reflow oven listed as following:

√ It is able to make the surface tension of solder paste get smaller which is good for the components adhering to the PCB more easily.

√ It can decrease the oxidization in a certain. Because the nitrogen is a kind of inert gas which is hard to produce chemical compound.

√ Reducing the rate of void. Because the rate of void decreases with oxidation.

√ Nowadays, some manufacturers also develop to put nitrogen in wave soldering oven. It is able to decrease the speed of oxidation of liquid tin in the bath. As the slag of tin will be formed when the liquid tin contacts with air. After that, the slag of tin will adhere on the printed circuit board. If it happens to the connect between two spots of tin, it will cause short circuit.

√ It can increase the rate of tin feeding of pin components and then they will combine with the printed circuit board firmly.

PCB with components

PCB with components

Best Technology, a professional PCB solution provider, is always dedicated to catch up with times. Our unique technology and high quality products will give you a competitive supply of printed circuit board and PCB assembly and make your wearable devices more excellent. To learn more, contact us at 0755-29091601 or check our website: https://www.bestpcbs.com

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5 Views on Explaining Why the PCB Is Green

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019

At the first sight, you will see that there is a layer of green oil on the PCB. It is called solder mask which is comprised of resin, talc and pigment. Of course, solder mask also has other colors, including red, yellow, black and so on, but green is the one that used the most widely.

When it comes to the question like that “Why are the most of printed circuit boards are green?”, the engineers from Best Technology with rich experience gave 5 points to explain it:

1. There PCB is required to go through the exposure room with yellow light in some processes of fabrication and the visual effective in exposure room is better than the solder mask with other colors.

What’s more, the PCB needs to coat tin, SMT and AOI testing during SMT soldering. All of these processes require optical position alignment and the green solder mask is better for the recognition of instruments.

PCB with green solder mask

PCB with green solder mask

2. Before the flying probe testing is applied widely, most of the wires on the PCB are relied on the naked eyes to inspect.It is very tired to detect the boards in strong light. If the rigid board is green, it will not do a lot harms to eyes.

3. There are cobalt and carbon in  blue and black solder mask,which have a certain conductivity, so there is a risk of short circuit. However, the PCB with green oil will be more friendly to the environment. Because it will not release poisonous gases when use the printed circuit board in a high temperature environment.

printed circuit board with green solder mask

printed circuit board with green solder mask

4. Since some famous brands began to use black solder mask in 2007, such as ASUS and Micro-Star and then people kept an eye on the colors of PCB.In this way, people gradually believe that PCBs with black solder mask means that the boards have high quality.After that, more and more PCB manufacturers started to apply black solder mask. NO one said that printed circuit boards with black solder mask are better than those with green solder mask.It is entirely due to the misleading caused by the famous brands using black solder mask to identify product positioning.

5. There is no reason, just because of habit, so it has been used all the time.

Best Technology is the premier expert in PCB manufacture of electronics, brings a unique combination of technology and quality that offers a competitive supply of printed circuit board and PCBA. With high qualified engineers, we are able to help you find a PCB with high quality. To find out more, contact Best Technology at 0755-29091601 or check the website: https://www.bestpcbs.com/

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Waymo to Launch Its Self-Driving Car Service in the Near Future

Monday, December 3rd, 2018

If you are fascinated by the driveless car, Waymo which possesses the most autonomous technology in the world should be known absolutely. A news came a few weeks ago from John Krafcik himself, the CEO of Waymo. During the Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Tech D.Live conference, he announced that the Alphabet unit was planning on launching a driverless car service in the next two months, directly competing with Uber and Lyft.

On November 8, 2018, Waymo launched the driveless cars in Phoenix, Arizona, with no passengers in the front row but two engineers of data collecting in the back seat. Waymo established in 2016, and it soon acquired the relevant road test license, but in fact Waymo had began testing before its establishment. It looks like its driverless rides will hit the streets of Phoenix by the end of December. Or possibly early January.

Waymo does well in autonomous technology, but it still has shortcomings for cars. So they found Chrysler, a car brand of native American, which quickly agree with to work with former. Chrysler provided Waymo with 100 Pacificas cars and transformed them into driverless vehicles.

As we can see, an upwelling development of driveless car is coming. Best Technology believes that it will increase the demands of PCB, because the power control system, security control system and the electric system of vehicle cannot without printed circuit board.

Best Technology has been established for more than 12 years. In this period, we still spare no effort to be customers best partner of PCB and PCBA in China. If you would like to learn further information of us, please check our website: https://www.bestpcbs.com/

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Industrial Robots in PCB Industry?

Friday, November 30th, 2018

Nowadays,the application of industrial robots in PCB industry are in the stage of beginning and there are still lots of problems need to be solved. Many production lines in PCB industry are non-standard products (the products and equipments are do not based on the unified industry standards and specifications published by the country, but designed and fabricated by oneself according to one’s own needs).

However, there is still a long way to go to apply robots in the printed circuit board industry. Because the robots are limited by the existing working space and the ability of the original equipments in the process of application. Meanwhile, confronted with the application of various sensors to improve the intelligence of robots. All these factors influence the large-scale application of robots in PCB industry.

Although there are still some difficulties stuck the application of industrial robots in PCB industry, applied the robots into the PCB industry still have a bright prospect. The robots applied into the PCB industry will show a trend in the future as following:

  1. From single line application to multiple line application, the PCBmanufacturer need to invest a lot of money if they would like to introduce the robots to realize automated production. But they can expand the scale of application gradually after reforming the existing single line.
  2. From the application of simple robots to the application of AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle) combined with other intelligent devices, most of the material transfer between existing production lines is manual operation, which can be distributed by the combination of robots and AGV to achieve orderly material transfer.
  3. The application of robots in the original factory should be localized. But if the new plants need to realize automated production in full aspects, it means that introducing the application of robots and AGV is required.
  4. Get the process of manufacturing more intelligent and more flexible by the combination of industrial robots and IoT (Internet of Things).

Since throwing its hat into printed circuit board industry, Best Technology always tries its best to adopt the most advanced equipment to make rigid circuit board, rigid-flex circuits, ceramic PCB etc. with high quality for our clients. Choose us, you deserve the most suitable products and the most satisfying service at a good price. More information, please check our website: https://www.bestpcbs.com

 

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Customer Oren and Amitay from Israel visited our company

Friday, October 14th, 2016

On Oct 14th, customer Oren and Amitay from Israel visited our company. They are very nice and smart, just arrived at our office without any more instruction. We’re old friends since 2011 but never meet each other in China. After drinking Chinese black tea, we had a delicious lunch: Chinese traditional Hot Pot and fried fish with red pepper.

Hot pot & fried fish lunch

Hot pot & fried fish lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also took photo with some of sales girls in office. You can see, how happy we are!

In office with sales girls

In office with sales girls

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After that, they visited our Printed Circuit Board factory to visit whole PCB manufacturing process. From initial PCB raw material cutting, CNC drilling, exposure, etching, copper platting, soldermask & silkscreen printing, CNC routing, V-cutting, to final opening & shorting testing, flying probe testing, FQC and packaging. We also introduce our special board such as heavy copper PCB, extra thin PCB.

PCB raw material CNC drill (1st drilling, to make PTH (plating through hole)

PCB raw material CNC drill (1st drilling, to make PTH (plating through hole)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PCB DES line (developing, Etching, stripping)

PCB DES line (developing, Etching, stripping)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PCB CNC Routing & Milling
PCB CNC Routing & Milling

 

PCB flying probe testing to test PCB opening & shorting

PCB flying probe testing to test PCB opening & shorting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After visiting whole process of FR4 Printed Circuit board and Metal Core PCB, they speak highly of us and also give us some suggestion to help us to improve our PCB manufacturing level and PCB quality. Thank you Oren and Amitay.

Looking forward to seeing you soon in Israel in 2017.

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Why Soldermask Opening or Tented was not the same like the Original Gerber file?

Monday, August 29th, 2016

Recently customer compliant that the soldermask for some holes, esp for PTH (plated through hole, sometimes people named Via) was wrong, because in his original Gerber file, it was opened, but on actual printed circuit board, it was tented (covered), and some cases, some was tented and some was opened at the same time. It made customer confused.

In fact, there’s a default rule in PCB (printed circuit board) manufacturing: If the PTH (Via) was less than 0.60mm, then the soldermask will be made as per factory’s default rules: making them as tented (covered), regardless it was tented or opened in customers’ original Gerber file.

Here you can see pictures showing a board with a 0.30mm PTH, soldermask was opened in original Gerber file, but in real board, it was tented.

0.3mm Via soldermask

0.3mm Via soldermask

And in this board, for 0.508mm PTH (via), some soldermask was opened and some was opened.

0.508mm Via soldermask

0.508mm Via soldermask

Why like that? Here are two major reasons:

1) For PTH(via) less than 0.6mm, normally the function was only to electrically connected trace, not for electronic components assembled; so whatever PTH was opened or tented, it doesn’t matter.
2) In rigid printed circuit board manufacturing, it’s not easy to etch away the soldermask around PTH less than 0.60mm. As soldermask was made by that method: printed whole area with oil (soldermask), then undergo develop & exposure, then pass the etching line. The chemical will etch away the oil accordingly to the drawing, but if the hole was too small (less than 0.60mm), then the oil around will be very difficult to etch away, so you will see some oil was etched away (soldermask opened), some oil still here (soldermask tented)

If diameter of hole was bigger than 0.60mm, then it’ll be easy to etch away and some of them will be used in assembly, so we will make according to Gerber file and you will see the board exactly like the drawing. See bellowing a picture showing a board with 0.889mm (0.035mil) PTH.

0.889mm Via soldermask opening

0.889mm Via soldermask opening

Sometimes, people just use these hole as testing point, not for assembly, then we suggest to add another PAD connected to this hole so that you can test it easy. To tested on hole was not stable as tested on a PAD.

In a conclusion, in future, if the hole was less than 0.60mm and you really want it to be opened, please add special notes when release order, and allow us to enlarge the opening diameter of soldermask (around 0.60mm) so that soldermask of these holes will be opened.

Please contact us if still any question about soldermask opening.

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Bigger size of Ceramic PCB is Available Now!

Wednesday, December 10th, 2014

Good news! This month we have used a new machine which can print much bigger size of silver palladium, Gold palladium, and glass glaze on Thick Film Ceramic PCB.

Currently the normal dimension in thick film Ceramic PCB is about 80 x 138mm and that size has already limited a lot of designs. You can’t put too much trace, PAD on such smaller size board, and the you have to use 2 layer, or 4 layers ceramic board to put more trace. And of course, that will increase a lot of cost definitely!

Now, we can make 200 x 200mm (8×8 inch). Thinking about the normal 80x138mm and you will find out this is an extreme improving! See bellowing pictures show the comparing!

Ceramic PCB size comparing

Ceramic PCB size comparing

So now you don’t need to worry about the size! You can design as big as you want!

And we are also continuing to adopt first-of-art machine and technology to make bigger size, higher quality Ceramic PCB!

Please contact us if you have more good idea, or suggestion about Ceramic PCB.

 

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