Stop Guessing With Your Heat Lamps Most smart lock repair benches are still using basic heating lamps to melt adhesives or set resins. They work,...

Getting the Heat Just Right for Smart Watch Repair We don’t just make heating lamps. We obsess over the light. If you’ve ever repaired a...

Hot Air vs. IR: Which one actually works for BGA Rework? If you’ve ever used a hot air gun to pull a BGA chip, you know the struggle....

Picking the Right IR Waveband for SMT Heating Here is a mistake I see all the time: shops picking an IR lamp based on wattage. It seems logical,...

Putting Automotive Electronics Through the Ringer with Custom Shortwave IR Let’s be honest: the environment inside a modern car is brutal. If you’re...

Keeping Your Infrared Lamps from Burning Out If you’ve ever tried to repair a smartwatch, you know the struggle. You need enough heat to melt...

Getting the Heat Right for Smart Grid Repairs If you’ve ever tried to pull a high-density component off a smart grid board, you know the...

Why Your Pulse Lamps Keep Burning Out (And How to Stop It) Ever wonder why a lamp that’s supposed to be “heavy duty” just gives up...

Putting Automotive Electronics Through the Ringer Before a piece of electronics ever touches a car, it has to survive a literal hellscape of...

Getting Heat Right in Smart Watch Repair If you’ve ever tried to fix a smart watch, you know the struggle. You can’t just blast it with...

Picking the Right IR Waveband for Your SMT Setup When you’re putting together an SMT reflow or preheating station, you’ve got a big...

Stop Guessing with Your Heat Lamps For a long time, fixing smart locks has been a bit of a guessing game. You set a timer, hope for the best, and...

Why that 99.99% Quartz Purity Actually Matters When you’re building infrared heaters for repairing smart home gadgets or fiddling with...

Making SMT Heating Elements Actually Smart For the longest time, the infrared lamps we use in SMT reflow and curing have been pretty...

Getting Infrared Heating Right for SMT and Precision Repair We spent a lot of time hanging out in about 2,000 different SMT workshops. We wanted to...