Equipment
Workshop equipment
The core instruments and stations we use to diagnose and repair electronics. Each one comes with a detailed breakdown of what we do with it.
ABI BoardMaster: board diagnostics without schematics
Board diagnostics on the ABI BoardMaster series 8000: VI testing, analog signature and known-good comparison without schematics or documentation.
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Thermal imaging in electronics diagnostics
Thermal imaging diagnostics of boards: finding hotspots, power shorts, leakage currents and safe first power-up with a current-limited supply.
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Hot air rework station
How we use a hot air rework station to remove and place SMD, QFP and QFN parts, tune the thermal profile and work with flux and wick to IPC standards.
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BGA rework station and chip reballing
How we use a BGA station to remove chips, clean pads, apply balls through a stencil, tune the reflow profile and verify quality to IPC-7095, including X-ray.
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Digital oscilloscope in board repair
How we use a digital oscilloscope in board repair: checking clocking, SPI, I2C and UART buses, power ripple, logic levels and hunting down intermittent faults.
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Bench power supply in diagnostics
How a bench power supply helps in board diagnostics: safe first power-up with current limiting, locating shorts by current draw and local heating of a node.
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Microscope for soldering and micro-rework
Stereo microscope for soldering: joint inspection, finding micro-cracks and cold joints, work with 0201, QFN and BGA, and IPC-A-610 quality control.
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Ultrasonic cleaning of circuit boards
Ultrasonic cleaning of circuit boards: removing flux, dust, corrosion and condensation residue, choosing solutions, cycle settings, drying and precautions.
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Chip programmer and firmware recovery
A chip programmer in repair work: we read and write EEPROM, Flash and MCU memory, dump firmware, recover corrupted data and transfer it onto a new chip.
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LCR meter and bench multimeter
LCR meter and bench multimeter: we measure resistance, capacitance, inductance and ESR, test diodes and transistors, and run incoming component control.
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