i sort of remember hearing bad things about ultrasonic cleaners 
affecting ic wire bonds
or is that ancient history

fond memories of good old RMA and freon

Dennis Saputelli

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Paul Heilman wrote:
> My method was steam cleaning followed by an ultrasonic bath in methanol,
> then a bake at 60 C for two hours. 
> 
> The first steam cleaner used was the foaming wand on the espresso
> machine. Later we purchased a steam cleaner from, of course,
> steamcleaners.com.  
> 
> We then test with high humidity, a glass of hot water, and a 9 volt
> source. 
> 
> Our original problem was leakage at the inflection point in an
> environmental chamber, as the chamber stopped cooling, all the water
> evaporated off the coils and took the relative humidity to 100%.
> Particularly on our unit that was colder than the environment and had
> condensation. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Brian Guralnick
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 5:46 AM
> To: Protel EDA Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] "No-clean" flux leakage, was: (500V power supply)
> 
> Ok, my method of re-cleaning no-clean flux....
> 
> Use an electronic sonic tooth-brush going through a flux-cleaning
> solvent cycle, then, windex cycle, then, hot water cycle, then back to
> windex. 
> Windex was chosen since it completely evapourates & take any water with
> it.
> 
> This was the only way I could completely remove any electrical effect
> left by the no-clean flux.
> 
> Note that I was measuring effect in the micro-amp & nano-amp regions
> where battery powered circuits, eg-32Khz oscilators, super-low powered
> radio recievers, have a measurable effect.
> 
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