PCB Tech - What are the advantages and disadvantages of tin spraying circuit boards?

Tin spraying is a step and process flow in the production process of PCB board. Specifically, the PCB board is immersed in a molten solder pool, so that all exposed copper surfaces will be covered by solder, and then the hot air cutter is used to remove Remove the excess solder on the PCB board. Because the surface of the circuit board after tin spraying is the same substance as the solder paste, the soldering strength and reliability are better. Let's talk about the advantages and disadvantages of tin spraying and its application fields in detail.

Advantages and disadvantages of tin spraying circuit board

Advantages of tin spraying:
1. The wettability is better during the soldering process of the components, and the soldering is easier.

2, it can prevent the exposed copper surface from being corroded or oxidized.

Disadvantages of tin spraying:
is not suitable for soldering pins with fine gaps and components that are too small, because the surface flatness of the spray tin plate is poor. Solder bead is prone to be produced in PCB manufacturer's processing, and it is easier to cause short circuit to fine pitch components.

When used in the double-sided SMT process, because the second side has undergone a high-temperature reflow soldering, it is very easy to spray tin and re-melt, resulting in tin beads or similar droplets that are affected by gravity into spherical tin dots, which make the surface even worse. Leveling affects welding problems.

With the advancement of technology, some circuit board proofing uses OSP process and gold immersion process instead of spraying tin process; technological development has also made some factories adopt tin and silver immersion process, and in recent years, the trend of lead-free. The use of tin spraying process is further restricted.

Spray tin plate application field Tin spray board is a common type of PCB board, generally a multi-layer high-precision PCB board, which is widely used in various electronic equipment, communication products, computers, medical equipment, aerospace and other fields and products.

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