[volt-nuts] Thermal EMF of common solder

Todd Micallef tmicallef at gmail.com
Sun Jun 26 13:15:07 EDT 2016


I believe it is listed in the document that comes with Keithley's 2188
connector. There is a brief mention here ...

http://www.signaltestinc.com/v/vspfiles/assets/datasheet/Cnctr-Adpt-Tools_Acc.pdf


Todd

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 12:55 PM, David <davidwhess at gmail.com> wrote:

> There was a discussion on EEVBlog about low EMF solders which said
> Keithley recommended Sn96Ag4 but I was never able to confirm it.
>
> I have a spool of something from Kester that may be Sn96Ag4 but it is
> only marked Sn96.
>
>
> http://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/low-thermal-emf-solder/msg906573/#msg906573
>
> "just looked for low EMF solder and as stated in other threads
> Keithley suggests for 2182 Sn96/Ag4"
>
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 16:12:38 +0200, you wrote:
>
> >Hello All.
> >
> >I measured the thermal EMF of two common solder, the lead free
> >Sn96.5/Ag3/Cu0.5 and the old Sn60/Pb40.
> >I have ordered a spool of Sn96/Ag4 (the recommended low-thermal-EMF
> replacement
> >for cadmium based one) and I will post the result for this too.
> >I could probably find also Sn97/Ag3 and Sn97/Cu3 if it's reasonable to
> check
> >them; I accept suggestion on what else to try between the RoHS complaint
> ones.
> >
> >Copper - Sn96.5/Ag3/Cu0.5 -> 3.4uV^C
> >Copper - Sn60/Pb40 -> 3.3uV^C
> >
> >Best regards,
> > Andrea Baldoni
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