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
• Teo
• Spike
• Marrold
• Umar

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
  • PCB holder
  • Solder (leaded and lead-free)
  • Non-corrosive flux
  • A variety of suitable tips
  • Solder sucker(s) and desoldering braid(s)
  • Cutting mat (for cutting, not soldering)
  • Heat-proof soldering mat (for soldering, not cutting)
  • Side cutters
  • Wire strippers
  • Anti-static tweezers
  • Helping hands with magnifying glass
  • Fan or Fume extractor
• Additionally shared between them we should have:
  • Reflow oven
  • Desoldering gun
  • Hot Air gun
  • Solder paste dispenser
  • Hot glue gun
  • Small screwdrivers and other misc tools
  • Trimmer tools (AKA 'pot twiddler' - like Vishay part number ACCTRITOB308-T000 )
  • Large and small crimping tools

Test Equipment

• Hantek DSO5202B (Manual) (Datasheet)
• Hitachi VC-6545 Analogue Oscilloscope
• Logic analyser (Maybe a few of the knockoff USB ones?)
• JTAG programmers - 5 x Insight IJC-2
• Atmel AVR ISP MKII (Manual)
• Multimeters:
  • Brymen BM235 (Manual)
  • UNI-T UT70B (Manual) (Specifications)
  • (Mercury?) EM890G (Manual)
  • Projecta DT830B (Manual)
  • Proskit MT-1210 (Manual)
• High accuracy bench multimeters
  • Solartron 7150 supplied by Nigle
  • Fluke 8010A (Manual) (Teardown)

• Benchtop Power Supplies:
  • Farnell TSV70 MKII - 35V 10A / 70V 5A (Manual)
  • 2 x TTI PL320 - 32V 2A (Manual)
  • Weir 460 - 60V 1A
• Bigger bench power supply - 60V 30A would be good
• Pulse/Function generators
  • FeelTech FY6600
  • ISO-tech GFG-8219A - 3MHz 50Ω (Manual)
  • Wavetek 182A - 4MHz 50Ω (Manual)
  • Thandar TG102 - 2Mhz 50Ω (Manual)
  • Thandar TG105 Pulse Generator - 5Mhz (Info)
• Component testers - TC1 (small and portable), ET4410 (benchtop)
• 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
• Electronic DC Load

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
  • RF Coax
  • Power cables: Mains, DC and HV
• Heatshrink sleeves/sleeving
• Flux pen
• Breadboards:10 x 830 Tie points, 2 x 400 Tie points, 1 x 360 Tie points 1 x 936 Tie points, 1 x 390 Tie points
• Flux and other cleaners (isopropyl alcohol, etc.)
• Drywipe markers

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.)
• PCB Design
• 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