8 Most Important Features When Choosing a Swab for Critical Cleaning
When it comes to critical cleaning, choosing the right swab is essential for achieving optimal results. By understanding the role of each feature and evaluating the specific cleaning needs, you can select the best swab to achieve optimal cleaning...
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Top 12 Mistakes Made When Repairing Electronic Circuit Boards
When it comes to repairing electronic circuit boards, it's important to have the right skills, tools, and techniques to avoid making costly mistakes. Despite the best intentions, even experienced technicians can make errors that can lead to...
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8 Most Important Features When Choosing a Wipe for Critical Equipment Cleaning
Cleanroom-grade wipes are designed to reduce the generation of particulate contamination when used in a critical environment. When choosing a wipe for critical equipment cleaning, there are several important features to consider. Here are eight...
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Repairing & Avoiding Electronic Faults with Thermal Paste
Thermal grease, also known as thermal paste or thermal compound, is a substance used to improve the thermal conductivity between two surfaces, typically between a microprocessor and a heat sink. The purpose of thermal grease is to fill in the...
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When should I clean off no-clean flux?
If it is fully activated (brought up to solder temperature), it should not leave any ionic residue behind. You might have to clean if...
1. Flux is being used so liberally that it all isn’t being heated along with the solder.
or
2. The...
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CASE STUDY: Using Freeze Spray to Bring a $10M System Back to Life
Parts fail and electronics break. Good design practices can avoid some component failures, but many are unavoidable. Identifying the offending component and why it might have failed is the first step in refining the design and increasing the...
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Is This the End of the “Forever Chemicals” Era?
About 70 years ago, a new class of chemicals were invented that improved everyday products used at home and outdoors, but in time we learned they can be bad for us and can last nearly forever. PFAS (perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances),...
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What is the difference between Soder-Wick No Clean and Soder-Wick Lead-Free, since they both are coated with no-clean flux?
The construction of the braid is the biggest difference. Most wick, including Soder-Wick No Clean, is a flattened tube of braided copper. This works well to pick up as much solder as possible for the given length of the wick. For Solder-Wick...
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Chemtronics In-House Cleaning, Coating, and Analytics Lab
Customers can optimize their processes utilizing Chemtronics’ expertise and facility which offers state-of-the-art cleaning, coating and analytical services. Using batch, ultrasonic and vapor-degreasing systems, Chemtronics can duplicate...
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Guide to Defibrillator Maintenance
Defibrillators are medical devices that help revive a patient. It releases a large electric shock to bring back the normal rhythm of the heart. It is commonly used on any patient suffering from sudden cardiac arrest. There are two types of defibrillators,...
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