LED screen PCB copper off three reasons you can say one?

The copper line of the LED advertising screen PCB is detached (also often referred to as copper throwing). The PCB factory says that it is a problem of laminates and requires its production plant to bear bad losses. According to the customer complaint handling experience, there are several common reasons for copper dumping in PCB factories:

First, PCB factory process factors

1 The copper foil is etched excessively. The electrolytic copper foil used in the market is generally single-sided galvanized (commonly known as ash foil) and single-sided copper (commonly known as reddish foil). Commonly used copper dripping foils with a thickness of more than 70um are galvanized copper foil. Both the red foil and the gray foil below 18um did not show mass rejection of copper.

When the customer circuit design is better than the etching line, if the specification of the copper foil is changed and the etching parameters are not changed, the residence time of the copper foil in the etching solution is too long. Because zinc is a kind of active metal, when the copper wire on the LED advertising screen PCB is immersed in the etching solution for a long time, it will lead to excessive corrosion of the line side, causing some fine lines of the backing zinc layer to be completely reacted with the base. The material detached, that is, the copper wire fell off.

In another case, there is no problem with the etching parameters of the PCB. However, after the etching, the water is washed and the drying is poor. As a result, the copper wire is also surrounded by etching liquid remaining on the surface of the PCB. If it is left untreated for a long time, the copper wire may also be over-etched. Throw copper. This situation generally appears to be concentrated on thin lines, or during periods of humid weather, similar defects appear on the entire PCB, and the copper lines are peeled off to see that the color of the contact surface with the substrate (the so-called rough surface) has changed. Unlike the normal color of the copper foil, the underlying copper color is seen, and the peel strength of the copper foil at the thick line is also normal.

2 Partial collision occurred in the PCB flow of the LED advertising screen. The copper wire was detached from the substrate by external mechanical force. This poor performance is poorly positioned or directional, and the shedding copper wire will have obvious distortions or scratches/impact marks in the same direction. Peel off the copper wire of the bad place and look at the matte side of the copper foil. You can see the normal color of the matte side of the copper foil. There will be no side corrosion failure, and the peeling strength of the copper foil is normal.

3 LED advertising screen PCB circuit design is not reasonable, with thick copper foil design too thin lines, it will cause the line to over-etch and throw copper.

Second, the laminate process causes

Under normal circumstances, as long as the laminate is hot-pressed in the high temperature section for more than 30 minutes, the copper foil and the prepreg are basically completely bonded. Therefore, the press-fitting generally does not affect the bonding force between the copper foil and the substrate in the laminate. However, in the process of laminating and stacking laminates, if PP is contaminated or the copper matte surface is damaged, the bonding force between the laminated copper foil and the substrate may be insufficient, resulting in positioning (only for large panels and (Speaking) or sporadic copper wire falls off, but there is no abnormality in the peeling strength of the copper foil near the measured drop line.

Third, the reasons for laminate raw materials

1 The LED advertising screen mentioned above that ordinary electrolytic copper foils are hair foil galvanized or copper plated products. If the peak value of wool foil production is abnormal, or when the galvanized/copper plating is performed, the coating is defective, resulting in copper foil. The peel strength of itself is not enough. When the bad foil is pressed into the PCB to form the PCB, the copper wire will fall off under the impact of external force. Such copper splinters are stripped of copper wire to see the copper foil matte surface (ie, the contact surface with the substrate) will not be obvious after the lateral corrosion, but the entire surface of the copper foil peel strength will be poor.

2 Advantages of poor adaptability of LED advertising screen copper foil and resin: Some special properties of laminates used today, such as HTg sheets, are not the same as the resin system, the curing agent used is generally PN resin, and the molecular structure of the resin is simple. The degree of cross-linking at the time of curing is low, and it is necessary to use a special peak copper foil to match it. The use of copper foil when producing laminates does not match with the resin system, resulting in insufficient peel strength of the metal-clad sheet metal foils and poor copper wire drop-outs during the insertion.