The PCB is nothing more than piece of copper-clad board with lands scratched out with a hobby knife. This tiny board sits atop the soldering station, parking a photodiode directly above the “in ...

Thus, I was really interested when I ran across a low-cost soldering and inspection station called POLUS on Amazon. The base of the station is mirror-smooth stainless steel. This is accompanied by ...

Making such a professional looking board at home is practically an art form. One could argue that with today’s cheap, short run PCB fab houses, why bother with trying to do it yourself?

The quality of the soldering has a tremendous impact on the overall quality of the PCB. Through soldering, different parts of the PCB are connected to other electrical components to make a PCB ...

It turned to capital equipment distributor Altus, which recommended Promation’s Quick 9434 four-axis soldering robot which for consistency, according to Altus, has closed-loop temperature control up ...

PCB from a TENS medical device No-lead solder is a relatively recent legislated fact of life that necessitated new solder, new fluxes, higher temperatures, and new solder processing equipment. Many ...

This is the most complex or detailed soldering I've done so far, the QFN20 package is very small but still not impossible to solder using conventional tools. In this video I make a functional circuit ...

The TDD Series surface mount jumper DIP switches from C&K components are sealed with a removable top tape to enable them to be used in reflow soldering and washable assembly processes. The ...