A Comparison of Methods for Attaching Thermocouples to Printed Circuit Boards for Thermal Profiling
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23/1/2025
It was found that of the three alternative methods for attaching thermocouples to PCB’s, none are as repeatable as high temperature solder. This was not a surprise.What was a pleasant surprise was the reliability and repeatability of aluminum tape. Aluminum tapes offers users of pass-through profilers a simple, inexpensive, and nondestructive method of attaching thermocouples to PCBs for thermal profiling. Using Aluminum tape reduces the amount of effort and expense required to obtain a accurate thermal profile, and this is a step forward in terms of both quality control and yield for SMT manufacturers.
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