Getting the Heat Right for Smart Meter PCBs If you’ve ever worked with smart meter PCBs, you know the struggle. Curing and soldering are a...

IR vs. Hot Air: Getting BGA Solder Right If you’ve ever worked with Ball Grid Array (BGA) components, you know the struggle. You need to melt...

Getting Your IR Wavelengths Right for Electronic Glue If you’ve ever tried to cure electronic glue by just cranking up the heat, you know it...

Stop Wasting Your Heat: The Secret is in the Shape If you’re using a heating lamp for smart lock repairs or precision curing, you probably know...

Getting the Heat Right for Smart Meter PCBs If you’ve ever worked with smart meter PCBs, you know the struggle. You need the solder joints to...

Why you should stop using hot air for BGA rework If you’ve ever tried pulling a BGA chip with a cheap hot air station, you know the struggle....

Stopping Your Infrared Lamps From Giving Up the Ghost If you’ve ever tried to repair a smartwatch, you know the struggle. You need enough heat...

Getting Your IR Lamps and Adhesives to Actually Talk to Each Other If you’ve ever tried to cure electronic glues by just cranking up the heat, you...

Putting Your Car Electronics Through the Ringer with Custom IR Lamps Let’s be honest: the inside of a car is a brutal place for electronics. Between...

Stop Guessing With Your IR Lamps For a long time, most of us have treated infrared lamps in SMT lines like lightbulbs. You plug them in, set a timer,...

Stop Letting Welding Fumes Kill Your IR Lamps Here is the reality: welding fumes and metallic dust are absolute killers for infrared lamps. When that...

Why We Use IR Lamps Instead of Hot Air for BGA Repair If you’ve ever worked on a smart lock PCB, you know the struggle. You’re trying to...

Let’s Talk About SMT Infrared Heating (And Why Most of It Fails) I’ve spent time in about 2,000 different SMT workshops. If there’s one...

Getting the Heat Right for Quantum Chips When you’re building quantum chips, “close enough” doesn’t cut it. The thermal...

Why Your IR Lamps Keep Burning Out (and How to Stop It) If you’re repairing smart locks, you know the drill. You’re using rapid pulse...

Getting Your Heat Right: Infrared for Electronics Let’s be honest: there’s nothing worse than pulling a PCB off the line only to find a cold solder...

Putting Automotive Electronics Through the Wringer Things are getting brutal under the hood of modern cars. If you’re testing electronics these...

Stop Guessing Why Your Heaters Are Dying Most of the heating elements we use in repair setups are pretty basic. They just get hot until a thermostat...

Why IR Beats Hot Air for BGA Desoldering Imagine you’re staring at a smart grid controller, trying to pull a BGA chip without turning the rest...

Stop Guessing Where Your Curing Oven Lamps Go If you’ve ever set up a curing oven for PCBs or smartphone repairs, you know the drill. You bolt...

If you want to speed up your curing times without accidentally frying your PCB, you have to get the infrared (IR) spectra and your glue’s...

Getting the Heat Right for Electronic Glue If you’ve ever tried to open a smartwatch, you know the struggle. You need enough heat to soften...

Stop Guessing With Your SMT Heating For the longest time, the infrared lamps in our SMT lines have been pretty “dumb.” You wire them in,...