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PSA: I was using way too much flux on SMD joints for years
Had a board from a 2021 Dell laptop come back with a weird white crust around a replaced chip. Customer said it failed again after six weeks. Realized the 'no clean' flux I was drowning the joints in wasn't fully cooking off with my old iron. Left conductive residue that slowly caused a short. Switched to a smaller needle bottle and just a tiny dot. Anyone else get bit by this before I felt like an idiot?
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coleman.christopher3mo ago
Tell that to my dead laptop board, @hernandez.jordan. Guess my flux soup was a bit too conductive.
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That white crust is usually just harmless flux residue, in my experience.
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