Let’s face it friends, everything is moving toward surface mount components. We’ve seen quite a few features here that cover using stencils to populate boards and using ovens to reflow. [Oleg] has put ...
Piher Sensors & Controls has introduced the MTS-360 Mechanical Mount Rotary Position Sensor with integral PCB for fast and easy mounting. Designed with the sensor directly mounted onto a PCB, the ...
Standex-Meder Electronics announces the RM05-8A-S 8-pole PCB mount reed relay module. Equipped with a new generation of drivers, the RM05-8A-S PCB mount reed relay module offers a 24% smaller ...
TE Connectivity (TE), formerly Tyco Electronics, has developed a surface-mount LGA 2011 socket specifically for Intel Corp's Core i7 and Xeon 5 CPU processors. The contacts of TE's new LGA 2011 socket ...
Should folks building small numbers of circuit boards use surface-mount parts, or should they stick with through-hole components that are so much easier to handle and solder (not to mention see)?