When assembling equipment a tedious and time consuming task is creation of wiring looms and wiring front panel IO. Over the past two years the electronics section where I work has been trying to do away with it. Our section has made the switch for 90% of the designs we do and it has massively…
I joined The University of Manchester’s Electronics Section around 5 years ago now. When I arrived the Section was still using through hole components. After a lot a pushing the section slowly made the transition to SMD components, and have never looked back since. Don’t get me wrong there are situations where through hole components…
Overview Isolating DC/DC supplies have always been quite costly in my designs. They seem to make up the bulk of the end BOM cost. When I need isolated supplies I generally require upwards of 3 kV isolation because of the applications the equipment is used for. I generally always end up selecting the medical grade…