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Lab

The electronics lab where VHRD's boards are designed, built and tested.

Main desk with two monitors, bench power supplies, an oscilloscope and a multimeter — FIG. 1The main desk

The lab has what a board needs from idea to test:

Measurement, soldering and rework equipment.
A CNC router.
A pick and place machine.
A vapour reflow oven.
A stencil printer.
A spot welder.
More than 1300 electronic parts, collected over the years.

The projects built here are on the work page.

Workbench with screwdriver rack, hand tools and a stereo microscope — FIG. 2The workbench

Desktop pick-and-place machine next to shelves of component bins — FIG. 3Pick and place and the parts store

Assembled laser scanner machine on a workbench — FIG. 4The 3D laser scanner, built in the lab

Desktop pick-and-place machine with tape feeders on both sides and its placement head on the gantry — FIG. 5The D600Plus pick-and-place machine

Stencil printer with a steel stencil on a vacuum block, alignment pins and clamps on a perforated plate — FIG. 6The vacuum stencil printer

Close-up of a green circuit board with solder paste printed on a BGA footprint and the pads around it — FIG. 7Solder paste from the stencil printer, on a BGA footprint

Bench with an infrared IC heater, a rework station with its handpiece in a holder, and a set of wrenches — FIG. 8The reflow station: a T-962 infrared IC heater and a Quick TR1300A rework station

Microscope view of a fine-pitch board-to-board connector soldered onto a green circuit board — FIG. 9Reflowed in-house: a fine-pitch board-to-board connector

CNC router gantry with its spindle, ball screw, linear rails and cable carrier — FIG. 10The CNC router