When selecting a service provider for circuit-board repair or rework, focus on the “three E’s”: expertise, equipment, and economies of scale. Printed-circuit boards (PCBs), no matter what brand or ...

No matter what brand or board type you’re working with, it’s impossible to escape the reality that PCBs are inherently failure-prone. Planning for when, rather than if, your circuit boards will ...

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 ...

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.

ALJ Electronics’ Carolyne Johnson at her circuit-board repair business in El Segundo. When her father died in 2009 after years of battling lymphoma, Carolyne Johnson thought she was prepared to handle ...

Previously, we discussed a method of finding which circuits on a given panel have neutral-ground (N-G) bond. Once you've identified the faulty circuits, repair them one at a time (verify by testing).

[Wayne] sent along this interesting read on circuit board repair. Even if you’re not uh, repairing, it’s interesting to get some ideas for modification techniques. Pictured is a DIP IC that’s been ...