Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 16 16:43:47 EDT 2000 | Steve Thomas
O.K., I give up. I am through trying to solder thermocouples on to 20 mil pitch QFPs. Whether it's my lousy technique (fairly likely), the wrong solder (Kester calls it thermocouple solder, and who am I to argue...it's a Sn10Pb88Ag2 alloy) or just
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 16 22:21:23 EDT 2000 | Dave F
Steve: Two things: 1 Chrys "The Thermo Princess" Shea wrote a great thread on attaching thermocouples that's in the SMTnet archives 2 Dymax (and probably others) makes a uV cureable thermal adhesive that's not a ugly to use as soldering thermal coup
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 18 11:50:42 EDT 2000 | Brian W.
I have been using aluminum tape to attach thermocouples lately. I got some when I ordered new thermocouples from KIC. I ran some comparisons using high temp solder and the tape, with no difference. You cut a small square of the tape (approx 1/8" s
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 17 01:31:31 EDT 2000 | Dreamsniper
Steve, I'm using 5 Sn/1.5 Ag/93.5 Pb Solder wire with a melting point of 300 deg. C to connect my thermocouples on smd components for thermal profiling. I'm using a soldering iron with an adjustable temp. to be able to melt my solder wire. Temp is ab
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 16 17:42:02 EDT 2000 | John Thorup
Hi Steve You really didn't tell us what is going wrong. Not enough heat to melt this hi temp solder (290C/554F)? Too much heat and burning up the pad/board? Thermo falling off? (remove all the original solder) You won't find Loctite 384 all that remo
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 17 10:04:28 EST 1998 | Chrys
Necessity is the mother of invention... The other day I loaned my last bit of high-temp solder to a co-op and never saw it again. Then I had to run a profile and I was in a pickle with no solder. So I ran out to the local Radio Shack to see if the
Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 17 10:22:31 EST 1998 | Earl Moon
| Necessity is the mother of invention... | | The other day I loaned my last bit of high-temp solder to a co-op and never saw it again. Then I had to run a profile and I was in a pickle with no solder. | | So I ran out to the local Radio Shack to
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 30 09:02:13 EST 1998 | Chrys
Drag the iron and molten solder over the thermocouple to the left, encapsulating the bead. Now, obviously if you are left-handed, reverse everything. This is a foolproof way to attach thermocouples. I used to have a lot more difficulty with them u
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 11 10:10:12 EDT 2007 | slthomas
Put "attach thermocouple" in the search box above and search "forum". Lots of hits there.
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 11 10:12:32 EDT 2007 | ck_the_flip
If you're too lazy to search, the quick answer I can give you: ALUMINUM TAPE! Try it. DoE's have proven, that it's the 2nd best method for T/C attachment. The best is obviously hi-temp solder.
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