High Melting Point Flux Core Wire Solder
It won’t be long until we in the northern hemisphere are complaining about the snow and the cold, but right now, it is all about the heat! ...
Improved Solder Density and Solder Paste Volume Fraction Tool
Folks, It is hard to believe that I have been blogging for over 7 years now. In all this time it has surprised me how much interest there has be...
Cleaning No-Clean Solder Paste Residues in SMT Assembly
Folks, There is a lot of interest in cleaning PCBs that have been assembled with no-clean solder pastes. Recently I discussed the topic with my ...
3D Electronics
Browse the coming attractions at your local movie theater. How many 3D movies are being advertised? 3D is a very exciting technology for m...
Musings on Electronics Assembly Metals: Gold Unified a Country
Folks, In Ken Burn’s excellent miniseries The Civil War, Shelby Foote states that the Civil War made us a country by uniting No...
Advantages of L-Shaped Bus Ribbon For Solar Module Assembly
Okay, I have to admit I was wrong… I used to have a bias against L-Shaped bus ribbon. “Why not just use available continuously spooled ri...
Good Reads
Folks, If you need to take a break from topics such as solder paste, solder preforms, tin whiskers, indium TIMs etc, there are a few books I would r...
SIR and ECM Testing For Water-Wash Solder Paste Fluxes
It is not often that we get a request for SIR (Surface Insulation Resistance) and/or ECM (Electro-Chemical Migration) results for a water washable/sol...
Flux Pens for Hand Soldering Solar Cells
A few months back, while discussing tricks for hand soldering c-Si solar cells, I mentioned flux . One tip I didn’t mention is how to APPLY......
Lead-Free Electronics Assembly Using the SMT Process - at PCM
Folks, Struggling to find a good, royalty-free, video of electronics assembly, my Dartmouth ENGM 185 class on manufacturing processes decided t...
Another Nitinol Soldering Flux Option
Indalloy Flux #2 is not the only option for soldering to Nitinol. There is also Indalloy Flux #3. Both fluxes are strong enough to clean the......