Circuit Board Rework and Repair Services
Component Tinning and Reballing
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October 2, 2018
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A routing miscommunication resulted in a significant problem. The circuit traces for connectors on the left side of a circuit board were supposed to route to the connectors on the right side. Unfortunately the opposite was true. Do to time considerations re-manufacture was not viable option. There were a few options considered. One option was to manufacture a custom adapter card that included the rewired circuit traces. The conductors could have been mounted to the adapter card and the card could ...
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We are assembling a back plane board with 24 layers. We are attempting to hand solder solder through-hole components, but are finding that the solder does not flow through to the other side of the board. Is there is a method or technique I need to use to accomplish this ..
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This kit includes all the tools and materials you need to protect heat sensitive areas of an assembled circuit board from excessive heat exposure during rework operations. This kit is is ideal for the protection of adjacent components at risk of collateral heat damage during hot gas BGA rework.

Special Offer Price $159.00, Normal Price $179.00
Offer expires October 31, 2018
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Several multilayer backplanes were mistakenly manufactured with missing plating for 24 holes on each board. The top and bottom side pads were in place, but the holes had no plating thus the inner layers were not connected. After consultation it was decided that the best rework approach would involve machining down to the inner layers and connecting copper ribbon to complete the connection on the ...
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Today, it's estimated that worldwide electricity costs total roughly $2.5 trillion a year and that cooling systems consume 15% of that electricity. With experts forecasting demand for cooling to grow ten-fold by 2050, that means electricity expenditure for cooling alone could rise to nearly $4 trillion per year. Fortunately, there appears to an extremely clever and cost-effective way of doing just ...
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