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Post by radiostationx on Mar 14, 2021 19:20:52 GMT 1
You may remember TI in the USA, they probably made your first digital calculator. They haven't gone away, TI make loads of stuff for Rockwell Collins. RC is inside the avionics of most major airliners.  |
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Post by ronturner on Mar 15, 2021 20:30:39 GMT 1
How well I know this company and their good products. But they are not unique. Its 20 years since I hung up my production engineering tools but even then we were using components so small they were very difficult to handle and required very specialised equipment, and expensive to handle them. Many of the passive components we used were so small we called them "dust" and they could blow away if the pneumatics on the machines were not properly regulated.
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Post by radiostationx on Mar 16, 2021 7:24:03 GMT 1
No Ron TI are not the only company to make small. Repairs to electronics are getting daft though. I recently replaced a back to back diode package in a Software Defined Radio. The part (BAV99) is 3mm x 1mm and hand soldering was very tricky indeed. Note the cocktail stick for scale. And the liberal use of solder paste to protect those ridiculously small components nearby from receiving heat from the iron. Breathe out and they would be all over the shop !  |
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