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November 12, 2019 - Vista, California -
Axiom Test Equipment, an electronic test equipment
rentals and sales company headquartered in North County San Diego, has published
a blog post entitled "Turn on the Temperature with Thermal Test Systems," explaining
the need to properly evaluate product function across the full range of expected
ambient temperature conditions. Doing so helps guarantee favorable customer experiences
and online ratings, as well as reduces costs of warranty service.
Turn on the Temperature with Thermal Test Systems
Electronic device performance is sensitive to
temperature, with most electronic devices and components specified according to
operating and storage temperature ranges. Those ranges differ according to the type
of component and application, with electronic products for industrial and military
applications usually characterized over wider temperature ranges than commercial
electronic products. Thermal test systems provide convenient ways to reproduce the
temperature ranges that a device might encounter under actual operating conditions,
but they also help bring temperature control to a device under test (DUT) as the
means of performing thermal shock testing and accelerated lifetime testing. Selecting
the best thermal test system for the job is simply a matter of understanding the
thermal test requirements for an application and how to best deliver them.
Many electronic device failures are related to thermal issues, such as solder
joints and other electronic junctions that exceed maximum safe operating temperatures.
Printed circuit boards (PCBs) and other electronic materials have different coefficients
of thermal expansion (CTEs) which describe how they expand and contract with rising
and falling temperatures, respectively. For example, PCB assemblies consist of layers
of dielectric substrate materials and metal conductors, such as copper, with surface-mount-technology
(SMT) and other types of miniature packaged components attached to conductive circuit
patterns. Each material has unique thermal characteristics and expands and contracts
in different ways as a function of temperature, resulting in stress points at the
interfaces of different materials. Thermal testing is often used to check the reliability
of plated through holes (PTHs) and solder joint connections in PCBs to determine
reliability.
Thermal cycling through a temperature range at a prescribed rate of change in
temperature is also used to perform accelerated life testing of electronic devices
and components, speeding failure mechanisms in a DUT to better understand how to
improve and/or optimize ...
If you would like help selecting any type of test equipment for your project,
contact Axiom Test Equipment's sales department at
sales@transcat.com,
call 760-806-6600, or browse Axiom Test Equipment's inventory online at
www.axiomtest.com.
About Axiom Test Equipment
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Established in 2005, Axiom Test Equipment strives to continually improve itself
and offer the best value for its customers. We offer our customers several practical,
efficient and cost effective solutions for their business or projects' test equipment
needs. Whether you need to
rent &
buy test equipment, repair test equipment, sell or trade equipment, we are committed
to providing superior customer service and high quality electronic test equipment.
At Axiom Test Equipment we provide several services. We
rent electronic
test and measurement equipment. We also sell test equipment. If you have a piece
of malfunctioning or broken test equipment we also have an in-house repair lab.
For anyone seeking a way to offload their surplus or obsolete equipment, we offer
a trade-in program or we can buy the equipment from you.
We stock a comprehensive inventory of equipment and can use our extensive network
to find you those hard to get items. We believe in getting equipment to you quickly
and at a competitive price.
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Electronic device performance is sensitive to
temperature, with most electronic devices and components specified according to
operating and storage temperature ranges. Those ranges differ according to the type
of component and application, with electronic products for industrial and military
applications usually characterized over wider temperature ranges than commercial
electronic products. Thermal test systems provide convenient ways to reproduce the
temperature ranges that a device might encounter under actual operating conditions,
but they also help bring temperature control to a device under test (DUT) as the
means of performing thermal shock testing and accelerated lifetime testing. Selecting
the best thermal test system for the job is simply a matter of understanding the
thermal test requirements for an application and how to best deliver them. 
Get Exactly What You Need. Rent - Buy
- Repair - Trade-In