Tin Pest in Medieval Culture
Folks, Readers may remember that I have had an interest in tin pest for some time. Tin pest can occur if nearly pure tin is exposed to cold temperatur...
Folks, Readers may remember that I have had an interest in tin pest for some time. Tin pest can occur if nearly pure tin is exposed to cold temperatur...
Folks, I will be presenting a workshop on “Understanding and Troubleshooting Voiding in Bottom Terminated Components (BTCs)." BTCs are one ...
Peter writes, Dear Dr. Ron, I am trying to implement the Pin-in-Paste (PIP) process. The PWB is 63 mils thick, the component pin diameter is 47 mils, ...
Joey writes: Dear Dr. Ron, I have a stencil aperture with an unusual shape. See Figure 1. How do I calculate the area ratio? The stencil thickness is ...
Folks, Readers of this blog will remember that I have been a skeptic of self-driving cars emerging in the near term. I am even less sanguine today. A ...
Folks, To the SMT process engineer, the second most important thixotropic material in their lives is solder paste. If solder paste was not thixotropic...
Dr. Ron introduces a new book to help electronics assembly process engineers to troubleshoot everyday assembly defects and challenges. ...
When comparing data with a large sample size, you may find that although the data shows that one sample is STATISTICALLY significantly better, it may ...
What will you miss most if you didn't have electricity? How about lighting? Gallium nitride LED bulbs offer efficiency far beyond what Tesla and E...
I have to admit, I was impressed when I read an article in Forbes magazine that showed a graph on computer speeds. It seems the iPhone 11 Pro is as fa...
Exploring and explaining the 5-ball and 8-ball solder paste & stencil design rules in SMT assembly....
I will be presenting this coming February at SMTA PanPac. Here are several reasons why you should come to this show....