LED manufacturers are experts regarding the thermal design inside of the LED package. They can provide the relevant data to describe the thermal performance, and they also have good ideas about how an ...

What do you do when your motherboard is covered in electrolytic grime, has damaged pads and traces that are falling apart? You call [RetroGameModz] to work their magic with epoxy and solder. While ...

Above is a video detailing one method for populating a two sided surface mount PCB. We covered using a stencil to apply solder paste for a PCB a few weeks ago. In the comments there was a debate about ...

So, I installed a new DC power jack on a laptop motherboard. Being the genius I am, I thought I would add a little epoxy around the jack on the top of the board to ensure it stayed put and didn't ...

Copper corrodes quickly when exposed to oxygen. You must protect copper traces on outer layers from corrosion by passivation or by coating them with an inert material. Passivation refers to any ...

Users can socket their 1mm pitch, 64ball BGA devices without performance loss or little board space, no mounting holes, no solder EAGAN, MN—Ironwood Electronics' new high-performance ...