My introduction to soldering electronics coincided with a rough patch in my marriage due to appliance failure. When my wife and I got married in 2014, in our quest to save money, we purchased a used ...

The complexities associated with the use of solders in electronic products. What’s the alternative to solder? A long-standing adage observes that “if the only tool in your tool chest is a hammer, the ...

Available with capacitance values of up to 40 µF, the SE4 series of metallized polyester surface-mount capacitors are designed to operate at temperatures up to 125°C and to withstand solder reflow ...

TDK has created a range of surface-mount high-current common-mode chokes. “Customers who prefer reflow soldering but need high-current common-mode chokes can now get an SMD solution,” according to the ...

There is a plethora of electronics tutorials scattered about online. Sometimes it can be hard to separate the good ones from the bad, and the enlightening from the misinformed. We recently came across ...

Soldering, the process by which two items are joined together by melting a filler metal with a low melting point and pouring liquid metal onto the joint, is a process which is used in many important ...

I just bought a sold-as-seen bench power supply, which has got a bit of a fault, which is turning into a saga. – a particularly unwanted saga, as the PSU was bought to help fix something else.