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Gold plated contacts soldered to pcb

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trippj

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May 1, 2002
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Good Afternoon:
I am inquiring about any metallurgical or otherwise reactions that may take place as a result of using tin-lead solder to fix gold plated contact leads to printed circuit boards?



 
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We always used tin/lead solder that also had 2% silver content when soldering gold. I'd have to do some research to recall why though.
 
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