Talk:Electronics Group
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Equipment
Soldering Stations
- Each soldering station should have:
- OKI/Metcal PS-900 Iron and Power supply
- OKI/Metcal PS-900 Stand, sponge, and tip cleaner
- A variety of suitable tips
- Hot Air gun ebay
- Solder sucker amazon
- Cutting mat (for cutting, not soldering) amazon
- Heat-proof soldering mat (for soldering, not cutting) amazon
- Side cutters amazon
- Wire strippers amazon
- Anti-static tweezers amazon
- Vaccuum pick-up tool amazon
- Helping hands amazon amazon
- Magnifying lamps amazon
- Fan or Fume extractor farnell farnell
- Additionally shared between them we should have:
- Reflow oven
- Desoldering gun amazon
- PCB holder (Maybe one small, one large) amazon
- Video microscope (direct to video, not via software) ebay
- Solder paste dispenser ebay
- Hot glue gun
- A large whiteboard
- Small screwdrivers and other misc tools
- Trimmer tools (AKA 'pot twiddler' - like Vishay part number ACCTRITOB308-T000 )
- Large and small crimping tools
Test Equipment
- Digital Oscilloscope
- Analogue Oscilloscope
- Logic analyser (Maybe a few of the knockoff USB ones?) amazon probes
- Affordable and adequate multimeters - M890G for introductory experimenter/beginner work, Vici VC99 for midrange tinkering. ebay
- High accuracy bench multimeter - Solartron 7150 to be supplied by Nigle
- Electronic DC Load
- Small bench power supplies (100 watt) amazon
- Not quite as powerful, but maybe consider this one? (amazon link) - it has a separate switch for applying power to the output so you can set the voltage/current before you turn on the load
- Big bench power supply (Artag will return the Farnell used previously, or a smaller but less flexible one. Both 10A 30V max)
- Bigger bench power supply - 60V 30A would be good
- Signal/Function generator - KKMOON/FeelTech has pretty good reviews and good price and the slightly nicer FeelTech FY6600 has hackable/extendable options
- Component tester
- Plenty of hookup leads
- 4mm (banana) to 4mm in 0.5 and 1m lengths
- 4mm to crocs (or provide 4mm crocs to plug on the end of the leads)
- miniature crocs to crocs
- BNC to 4mm
- BNC to miniature crocs
- BNC to BNC
