Although winter doesn’t officially start until December 21st (for those of us in the northern hemisphere), here in Maine winter arrived several weeks ago with snow and cold temperatures.
As a follow up to our previous blog post about our Rover Mask™ , today, we’ll discuss best practices for cold weather storage and shipping.
Manufacturing printed circuit boards involves (among other things) components and solder.
Components are secured to the PCB and the boards are then sent to a reflow oven or a wave bath for finished soldering. There will be areas of the PCB that need to be protected from solder and this is why solder mask (or more aptly described, solder resist) is important.
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