Electronics Group

This is a page to properly organise the Electronics Group and the electronics area that we might end up with.

Workshop colour: PCB Mask Green, #008C4A

Members

• Velyks
• Spike

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
  • Solder sucker
  • Cutting mat (for cutting, not soldering)
  • Heat-proof soldering mat (for soldering, not cutting)
  • Side cutters
  • Wire strippers
  • Anti-static tweezers
  • Vaccuum pick-up tool
  • Helping hands
  • Magnifying lamps
  • Fan or Fume extractor
• Additionally shared between them we should have:
  • Reflow oven
  • Desoldering gun
  • PCB holder (Maybe one small, one large)
  • Video microscope (direct to video, not via software)
  • Solder paste dispenser
  • 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?)
• Affordable and adequate multimeters - M890G for introductory experimenter/beginner work, Vici VC99 for midrange tinkering.
• High accuracy bench multimeter - Solartron 7150 to be supplied by Nigle
• Electronic DC Load
• Small bench power supplies (100 watt)
• Big bench power supply (Artag will return the Farnell used previously, or a smaller but less flexible one. Both 10A 30V max)
• 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 BNC

Consumables

• Solder, Leaded in various sizes, rosin flux core
• Solder paste (?)
• Wire
  • Hookup/breadboard wire in lots of pretty colours
  • Multi-core in various gauges
  • Coax - audio and RF types
• Heatshrink sleeves/sleeving
• Flux pens
• Small and medium sized breadboards
• Flux and other cleaners (isopropyl alcohol, etc.)
• Drywipe markers
• Glass fibre abrasive pens

Components

Need to keep these stocked up and replenished regularly

Training

We should offer some! Possible subjects...

• Workshop introduction (How not to break everything)
• Basic soldering
• Advanced soldering (SMD, hot air, reflow etc.)
• Basic/Advanced electronics
• Arduino/Microcontroller programming
• Amateur Radio Intermediate Practicals Course (Fitting mains and coax plugs, soldering basics, reading resistors, testing diodes, and building kits) - applies to a lot of non-radio electronics efforts