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What industry standard applies to a pad/part size mismatch? It's a wonder pad to part size mismatch doesn't happen more often, considering the thousands and thousands of opportunities on assemblies. When it does happen, it's a big problem. Through the artwork design phase of this circuit board there was an error in the pad layout. What should have been two ...
Feature Story
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We are repairing military electronic equipment that has been in the field. The circuit boards are contaminated with sand, dirt, grime, sometimes oils, etc. The boards had been conformal coated with acrylic and urethane ...
Ask the Experts
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This paper discusses how to assemble complex surface mount connectors, how to rework the connectors and how to assure compliance to all connector requirements without sacrificing solder joint reliability and performance ...
Technical Library
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Is there a Repair Technician Hall of Fame? I don't know the answer, but I do know Dale Granger-Eckert would have to be a founding member. Dale retired recently. Her contributions to the world of circuit board rework and repair have been immense ...
Feature Story
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As reported in Nature Communications, a team of researchers has designed a new generation of transistor based not on silicon but on a ribbon of graphene, the two-dimensional carbon material with the thickness of a single atom ...
Technology Briefing
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Trivia
What is another name for a millimicron?
See the answer below.
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Quote of the Week
"Being right half the time beats being half right all the time."
Herbert Browne
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