4 Causes of Printed Circuit Board Failure
Printed circuit board failure doesn’t happen very often, but when they do, they’re typically caused by one of 4 reasons. We’ll touch on these four…
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5 Common Causes of PCB Failures
Common Causes of PCB Failures (and How to Prevent Them) With PCBs being central to nearly every electronic device, even a small PCB failure can…
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Problems in PCB Design
When it comes to electronics design and fabrication, we stand on the shoulders of giants. One of the ways that we benefit from those who…
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Adventures in PCB Repair 2
It’s Friday night and the whole family is getting ready to have a fun night playing with their vintage arcade dartboard cabinet. As you reach…
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PCB Finishes
In the electronics industry, we stand on the shoulders of giants. Making electronics function reliably requires more than just electricity and magnetism theory. For example,…
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Chip Shortage Sources & Strategies Going Forward
As the year comes to a close we still are seeing shortages of various kinds. The electronics industry is one that is experiencing a particularly…
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Food Safe Thoughts
Recently in the United States, we celebrated Thanksgiving which marks the beginning of the season where many people are cooking larger and more specialized meals….
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Adventures in PCB Repair
Every now and then we get requests from some customers to repair some arbitrary circuit board and we must then switch our hats from design…
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Hot Air Soldering
In our last installment about soldering, we cover how to solder many common types of components using a traditional iron. A good soldering workstation is…
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PCB Manufacturing Costs Could Rise Soon. Here’s Why
The pandemic has left few industries unscathed as significant disruptions in manufacturing, shipping and supplies have rippled through the work. PCB manufacturing is no exception,…
