Why I am a Global Warming Skeptic
Folks, I am a global warming skeptic. This term, however, requires some explanation. I believe in climate change. The climat...
Folks, I am a global warming skeptic. This term, however, requires some explanation. I believe in climate change. The climat...
Folks, In my last post we saw how you could measure density with only a scale. In this post, we will expand on that technique and learn h...
Folks, In the category of interesting requests, Ron, a gold worker, from Guyana, sent me the following note: Dr. Ron, My colleagues use a “...
Folks, I was at APEX 2013 San Diego this past week. San Diego is a great venue for the show, but I always forget how cold it can be (55-65°F...
Folks, Our discussion of Weibull Analysis continues…..Let’s say you have worked hard and assembled some SMT lead-free PCBs for thermal c...
Folks, In continuing our discussion on Weibull Analysis, let’s assume we assembled some SMT and through-hole PCBs with lead-free solder paste....
Folks, A while ago I discussed the Weibull Distribution and its importance in electronics reliability analysis. This distribution has been use...
Folks, Let’s step away from electronics assembly challenges, and deep considerations of solder paste, solder preforms, and wave soldering, ...
Folks, Let’s see how Pete is handling the wave solder crisis. Pete had to admit that he was surprised by the positive outcome of his meeting wit...
Folks, It’s been a while. Let’s look in on Patty…... Patty stared, bleary eyed, at her laptop screen. It was the day after th...
Folks, In the last posting, we saw how Weibull analysis helped us to determine that SACm® lead-free solder (SAC105 with about 0.1% manganese) has ...
Derivation of the Weibull Graph Folks, Last time we introduced Weibull analysis. Let’s now derive the relationships needed to calculate the slop...