INSIGHTS & RESOURCES
Practical guides, design tips and real-world insights on custom cable assemblies, wire harnesses and connectivity.
Leaded vs Lead-Free Solder: the Short Answer Measured on reliability, tin-lead solder is still the better alloy. In the NASA-DoD Lead-Free Electronics Project, one of the largest comparative test programs of its kind, tin-lead joints generally outlasted their lead-free counterparts in high-stress environments across 6,755 components, and lead-free held its own only in gentler conditions, steady temperatures, little vibration or shock [10]. The reason why lead-free solder nevertheless dominates the market today compared to leaded solder is more health-related than technical, because when the EU’s RoHS Directive restricted the lead content
A custom cable assembly passes through three stages: design, manufacture, and test. On most production lines those stages run on three separate sets of data: a schematic, a set of build notes, and a test
Wire Termination Methods — Crimping and Soldering Crimping is the controlled mechanical compression of a contact barrel around a conductor to create a permanent electrical and mechanical termination [3][4]. NASA defines soldering as “the process
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