Ultimate Guide to Contact Cleaners
You're getting intermittent issues with your device, so you suspect there's contamination in the electrical contacts. Dust, dirt, grease, and oxidation contamination can increase electrical resistance in contact areas. That means the current...
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The Ultimate Guide to Conformal Coating
Historically, the only circuit boards going through a conformal coating process were for mission-critical applications, like aerospace. The trend toward greater and greater electronic miniaturization and wearable electronics (PCB + electricity...
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Flexible Electronics Soldering Challenges: CircuitWorks Conductive Epoxy to The Rescue
The recent years have witnessed a tremendous transformation in electronics, from rigid forms to flexible, soft, and stretchable forms. These technological advancements will allow future electronics to be light and adaptive to the human body....
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Guide to Selecting the Best Degreaser, Contact Cleaner or Flux Remover for Your Application
Click step below for more information... Are you in search of the perfect degreaser, contact cleaner, or flux remover for your specific application? Look no further! This comprehensive guide aims to assist you in selecting the best cleaning...
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Drawing Conductive Traces: Fast & Effective Method of Repairing PCB Trace Defects
Drawing Conductive Traces: Fast & Effective Method of Repairing PCB Trace Defects Continuity of copper traces is one of the primary tests conducted in a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) before qualifying. Any broken or damaged trace, sooner or...
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How to Choose The Right Swab for Medical Device Assembly, Electronics & More
Swabs are often thought of as just tufts of cotton fiber wrapped around a stick. And while cotton swabs have their uses, more complex solutions are needed for critical industries like medical device assembly, cleanroom, electronic manufacturing,...
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Fiber Optic Cleaning Best Practices for Fusion Splicers
Cleaning Fusion Splice V-Grooves When cleaning the alignment grooves (or v-grooves) on a fusion splicer many technicians will use an alcohol Presaturated wipe to remove the contamination. If the contamination is not removed, it can be incorporated...
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Cleaning Study Optimizes Reliability and Bandwidth of Fiber Optic Connections
Optic Connections As telecommunications companies upgrade and continue to expand their fiber optic networks and plan for Fiber-To-The- Home (FTTH) to accommodate high speed Internet access, the need for an effective, repeatable and cost-effective...
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8 Most Important Features When Choosing a Swab for Critical Cleaning
1. Material The material of the swab should be compatible with the cleaning agent being used and the surface being cleaned. Common swab materials include foam, polyester, cotton, and microfiber. 2. Size and shape The size and shape of...
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How to safely clean your mobile devices
The Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to cleaning and disinfecting personal mobile devices. That intuitively makes sense, because we are constantly handling our phones and then pressing them against our face, close to our mouth...
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