David Duffy wrote:
>What brand of solder was it? We've used the "Cobarcore" brand stuff and
>not noticed any problems apart from working best with plated boards. On
>some bare copper boards with a solder-through coating it didn't want to
>flow as well. I haven't AFAIK had any flux related faults on boards using a
>mix of audio,video,micro,etc signals. Something to think about though...
>

Yeah, the brand of solder may be a factor. We tried Sea Step
from Easy Braid. As this is a first try, it is useful to
hear what others are using.

But I am a little confused here. If the Cobarcore stuff is
water-clean type, then aren't you cleaning the boards after
soldering? If not, why not?  But if it's not water-clean, then
your experience falls into the "old" category - ie, of not
cleaning the old type rosin [??] flux.

- DanM

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