Solder
Certified by ITAR
Certified by SMTA
Certified by IPC
Certified by ISo

Call us Now! 1-847-797-9250

BEST soldering geeks enable electronics companies to be more effective through professional instruction, tools and taking secondary assembly projects off your plate

Reballing Challenges

General
Process  BGA
Handling  StencilQuik™
Method  EZReball™
Method  High Volume
Method Dry
Packaging Ceramic
Package Reballing Challenges
 Optional
Services

There are some common areas inexperienced BGA assembly technicians may run into in the reworking of BGAs including:

Popcorned BGAPopcorned BGA

Other challenges regarding BGA reballing include:
  • Component damage due to improper reflow temperature
  • Improper temperature profile
  • Ceramic part reballing-paste printing onto select areas of the PCB lands

Warped BGAWarped BGA

Each of these problem areas may be mitigated by either having properly trained personnel or by using a professional contract rework facility such as BEST perform the work.
Ionic Cleanliness Testing

An ion chromatograph (IC) is the most common tool for precision testing of device cleanliness. This method can quantify and identify specific ionic species that are present on an electronic component or board.  The most common test method followed is the IPC TM-650 2.3.28.  The device is placed into an ionically-clean bag (e.g. Kapak), and is immersed in an extract solution of 75% isopropyl alcohol (IPA) to 25% de-ionized water.  It is important to be sure that the sampling procedures do not introduce any ionic contaminates.  The PCB is extracted in the solution for one hour at 80 degrees centigrade, the resulting extract is then injected into the ion chromatograph.  The IC then separates and detects each individual ion for which it was calibrated. Click here to see an Ionic Cleanliness testing report (PDF).