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- From: adrian@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (A Johnstone)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Solder melting point (was Re: How hot can the 486-50 cpu run ?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.121702.1075@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 12:17:02 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.022914.1563@ariel.ec.usf.edu> <17AUG92.09220477@wl.aecl.ca> <THEN.92Aug19211705@vipunen.hut.fi>
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- In article <THEN.92Aug19211705@vipunen.hut.fi>, then@vipunen.hut.fi (Tomi H Engdahl) writes:
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- |> In article <1992Aug18.151205.2809787@locus.com> dana@locus.com (Dana H. Myers) writes:
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- |> >I don't have a reference handy, but I recall that solder melts at a lower
- |> >temp than 400 C. I mean, 400C is 750 deg F.
- |>
- |> My reference says that the solder melts in temperatures between 188C and
- |> 220C. For eaxample Multicore 60/40 melts at 188C. Multcore Savbit melts at
- |> 215C.
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- |> >I can imagine the 486-50 running at 100-120 C, but not 400 C, even briefly.
- |>
- |> I think that over 200C is too high for silicon chips.
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- A collegue of mine has suffered from a bipolar device that disppitated 7W and
- thus detached itself from the board by melting the solder...
-
- Check out a paper called Packaging a 150W Bipolar ECL Microprocessor by William
- R Hamburgen amd John S Fitch from DEC's WRL if you want to find out about the
- bleeding edge of this subject.
-
- (for DEC WRL reports, email to WRL-Techreports@decwrl.dec.com with the word
- 'help' in the subject line)
-
- Adrian
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