Your plant has several custom-built production machines that use various plug-in circuit boards. The standard practice has been to troubleshoot to the board level and then replace the entire board.

Once you’ve mastered this skill, you’ll find that it unlocks further interest and additional opportunities to explore electronic repairs ranging from simple to complex. How do electrical engineers ...

TE Circuit Protection added another device to its Overcurrent protection devices, the AGRF1000. This device is a member to TE’s AGRF family which is commonly used in automotive device systems. It has ...

Workbench contributor and engineer Duke Evans writes that he has repaired many a circuit board trace with bare wire. In his years of circuit board repairs, Duke has also noted that some older ...

Buck regulators require an inductor that can be one of the largest components on the circuit board. By switching at 20MHz, the regulator can employ a special inductor consisting of copper traces on ...