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...

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....

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...

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 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...

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,...